Affymetrix Inc., founded in 1993, pioneered the field of oligonucleotide microarrays and has been the microarray gold standard for 15 years now.
Affymetrix´ GeneChip™ technology applies a combination of photolithography and combinatorial chemistry to directly synthesize 25mer oligonucleotides on a glass surface. It produces the highest feature densities in microarray industry. Up to 6.5 million different oligonucleotides are synthesized on a 1.7 cm2 surface – an area as small as a thumbnail.
Moreover, GeneChip™ technology excels with an outstandingly high degree of automation, reproducibility, and robustness. More than 20,000 peer-reviewed publications are based on Affymetrix GeneChip™ data.
