WHAT ARE THE CONTROLS FACTORY-BUILT ON CUSTOMARRAY CHIPS?
All CustomArray™ chips carry a set of factory-built controls including two types of synthesized probes: negative controls (NC), and quality controls (QC). Some positions are also left as ‘no-synthesis’ controls. All these probes are necessary for array quality control; thus, their layout cannot be changed. The exact sequences of these probes are shown in the table 1 (Cross-reference to this table in the CustomArray FAQ). You could BLAST these control sequences against your target sequence to estimate cross-hybridization.
