"Whole Genome" Microarrays:

1. Arizona Gallus gallus 20.7K Long Oligo Array: This array was printed using a set of 20,673 long oligos (65-75nt) designed by Richard Talbot and colleagues at the Roslin Institute based upon chicken Ensembl gene transcripts, the BBSRC fully sequenced set and the DT40 full length cDNAs using programs that have been used to design 50mer human and mouse long oligo sets. The entire BBSRC fully sequenced set includes several thousand non coding RNA's, including microRNAs. We offer these arrays at our cost of production, presently $100 per array. Using the GEISHA bioinformatics pipeline and information from Ensembl and NCBI, we have also created a high quality annotation file.

   To purchase the chicken long oligo array or for more information contact Adam Hoying at 520 626-4834, ahoying@email.arizona.edu, or visit the Steele Children's Research Center Genomics Research lab at http://www.grl.steelecenter.arizona.edu.

   Download our annotation file here: antinlab_chickchip_v1-4.gal

2. Affymetrix: Affymetrix offers a GeneChip Chicken Genome Array covering 32,773 transcripts corresponding to over 28,000 chicken genes. For more information go to: http://www.affymetrix.com/products/arrays/specific/chicken.affx

Additional Chicken Microarrays:

1. FHCRC Chicken 13K Array: A chicken multi-tissue cDNA microarray with 13,007 features is available to academic researchers. cDNAs are derived from chicken EST collections generated by BBSRC, University of Delaware and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. From a total of 363,838 chicken ESTs representing 24 different adult or embryonic tissues, a set of 11,447 non-redundant ESTs were selected and added to an existing collection of clones (4,162) from immune tissues and a chicken bursal cell line (DT40). Quality control analysis indicates there are 13,007 useable features on the array, including 160 control spots. The array provides broad coverage of mRNAs expressed in many tissues; in addition, clones with expression unique to various tissues can be detected. For additional information and to purchase arrays, go to http://www.fhcrc.org/science/shared_resources/genomics/dna_array/spotted_arrays/chicken_array/
2. University of Delaware--Larry Cogburn: Larry and his colleagues have produced four custom microarrays: UD_Liver_3.2K (GEO Accession # GPL1742), UD 7.4K Metabolic/Somatic Systems (GEO Accession # GPL1737), Chicken Neuroendocrine System 5K (GEO Accession # GPL1744), and the DEL-MAR 14K Integrated Systems (GEO Accession # GPL1731). Additional information is available at http://cogburn.dbi.udel.edu/.
3. ARK Genomics: Offers an 1153 clone chicken embryo array, a 5,000 cDNA chicken immune array, and a 4,800 clone chicken neuroendocrine array. Information is available at: http://www.ark-genomics.org/resources/chickens.php