Microarray designs and sets

eArray gives you a full set of tools to search, create, share, and manage microarray designs and sets.

A microarray design is the layout of probes on a single glass slide with a particular format.

A microarray set is a group of microarray designs. When you want to include more probes than a particular design format can accommodate, you can create a microarray set. The microarray set accommodates your full complement of probes over multiple slides. Each slide contains an appropriate set of control probes. In eArray, you do not have to decide ahead of time whether to create a design or to create a set—you can select the probes that you want, and try out many potential configurations. Microarray sets do have a few limitations:

One microarray design can be part of only one microarray set.
Microarray designs from a microarray set cannot be used as templates for creating new microarray designs.
You cannot use a microarray set as a template to create a new microarray set.
Note:
· A separate set of topics describes the eArray tools that you can use to create bait libraries in the SureSelect Target Enrichment and SureSelect RNA Enrichment application types. See SureSelect Target Enrichment libraries and RNA enrichment libraries.
· eArray does not support the creation of CGH+SNP microarray sets.