Delete probes

You can permanently remove probes from eArray. You must be the owner of the probes, and the probes cannot be in use in any probe group, microarray design, or Express Array. This feature gives you a way to remove "orphan" probes that are not in use, or probes that you have uploaded or created in error. You cannot delete Agilent probes, such as probes in the AgilentCatalog folder, HD probes, or SNP probes.

Note: A separate topic describes how to delete baits in the SureSelect Target Enrichment application type. See Delete baits.

Perform a search for the desired probes. You can prepare and upload a file of the Probe IDs of the probes that you want to delete, and use this file to perform a probe search. See Search Standard Probes.
In the Search Results pane, select the probes that you want to delete. Use the following as a guide:
- To select an individual probe, mark the check box in its row.
- To navigate among multiple pages of results, use the Pages links. eArray remembers the probes that you select as you navigate from page to page.
- To reverse the order of probes in the list, click the Probe ID column heading.
- To apply your default filter to the probe list (when probe filtering is available), click Apply Default Filter. See Apply a probe filter. Probe filters are not available for microRNA and SureSelect Capture Array type probes.
- To apply one of the available probe filters to your probe list (when probe filtering is available), click Filter. See Apply a probe filter. Probe filters are not available for microRNA and SureSelect Capture Array type probes.
- To select all of the probes on the current page, mark the check box in the heading row of the Search Results.
- To select all of the probes on every page of the search results, mark Select Entire Result.
Click Delete.

A dialog box appears.
Caution: When you delete probes, you permanently remove them from eArray. To restore deleted probes, you must upload them or create them again.

Click OK.

A message tells you that your Delete Probes job has been submitted, and that you will receive an e-mail when eArray completes the job. You can monitor the progress of the job in the Pending Jobs pane on the workspace home page.
Click Close.

When eArray completes your job, you receive an e-mail, and the status of the job changes to Complete.
Note: eArray may only be able to delete some of the probes that you select. If so, eArray deletes the probes that it can. The e-mail that you receive includes a list of the probes that you selected, and shows whether or not each probe was deleted.