How will the clone and spot location information be provided?
We will provide a list of the elements (clone name, Genbank accession number, putative identification) along with the spot location (block, column, row) with the arrays in an Excel spreadsheet that will be available to users via FTP download. This provides the user with the most information possible in the most generic and useable format, regardless of platform for analysis. There are numerous brands of scanners and these all require customized formats. It is the responsibility of each user to convert the data into a format useable by their own scanner and data analysis systems.
