SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced the availability of multiple genomic microarray tools that will further enable scientists in the applied research field. The company is updating, developing, and manufacturing organism arrays in collaboration with leading scientific communities so that researchers in areas such as animal breeding, crop science, and microbial genetics can have easier access to microarrays with proven assays, formats, and platforms. The new menu of arrays includes whole-transcript (WT) expression profiling, genotyping, and gene regulation arrays for organisms such as bovine, rice, soybean, porcine, medicago, zebrafish, mosquito, E. coli, Shigella, maize, and others. In addition, Affymetrix offers more than 30 other arrays for environmental, food, and infectious disease studies in cartridge, strip, and plate formats for different throughput needs.
