HOW REPRODUCIBLE ARE CUSTOMARRAY CHIPS?
We hybridized 20 identical CustomArray chips with the same RNA target sample prepared from the Universal Human Reference RNA (Stratagene) and labeled with Cy3 and Cy5 according to the dual-color scheme. Our raw data (no background correction) showed the following average correlation coefficients among different pairs of 20 chips: 0.97 for the Cy3 color channel, and 0.98 for the Cy5 color channel. In total, 97% of all pair-wise correlation coefficients were over 0.95.