WHAT SPIKING CONTROLS CAN I USE TO ESTIMATE CustomArray PERFORMANCE?
Commercially available Stratagene spiking control mRNA samples (http://www.stratagene.com/products/) made from 7 Arabidopsis thaliana genes can be used. Typically 2 or 3 spiking controls should be sufficient, select them and include the corresponding probes from the following list into the array design files.