SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced commercialization of the next-generation human transcriptome array demonstrated by Stanford University researchers to be superior to mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) in gene expression profiling studies. In multiple experiments using a clinically relevant transcriptome discovered by deep sequencing, the research scientists compared the throughput and performance of both profiling technologies and found the new GeneChip® Human Transcriptome and Splice Junction Array outperformed RNA-Seq in most all parameters when detecting exonic changes implicated in human disease and genetic disorders.
