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Microarrays

Microarray commercial success

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Microarrays became extremely commercially popular after a few years of research. For instance, 23andMe, one of the biggest company in microarray industry, has started to make publications since 2010. They are generating a massive amount of data even to this day. Why microarrays became so commercially popular? Check all possible explanations.

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It was the first easy-to-use technique that enable you to measure gene expression in thousands of genes simultaneously.

The construction of chips is quite simple, so it is easy to produce such chips in big amounts.

The cost of the method is quite low, comparing to newer and more comprehensive methods like NGS.

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