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December 2006

Announcement:The second version (V.2) of the filarial microarrays are now available through the Molecular Division of FR3.   These can be requested just like any other reagent using the Requisition Form found on this site.   The only additional requirement is that the individual lab requesting the arrays must summarize briefly the experiment for which the arrays are being requested. Please see the MIAME protocol and checklist.   This is so I can inform the lab requesting the arrays if another lab is already doing a substantially similar experiment.   This will not prevent any lab from doing any experiment they wish, it is merely to keep everyone informed of any duplication of effort.   This may enable laboratories to modify their plans in order to ask slightly different questions.

The arrays are made available through the efforts and funding of the Filarial Microarray Consortium (FMC).   The FMC includes the following individuals who contributed funds for the design and printing of the arrays: Steven A. Williams (Smith College), Gary Weil (Washington University), David Spiro (TIGR), Barton Slatko (New England Biolabs), Thomas Nutman (NIAID), Thomas Klei (LSU), Achim Hoerauf (University of Bonn), Sara Lustigman (New York Blood Center), Brenda Beerntsen (U. Missouri), TV Rajan (U. Connecticut Health Center), and Alan Scott (Johns Hopkins). Special thanks to David Spiro and Seth Crosby ( Washington University) for their hard work in much of the design of the arrays.

The 18,153 Oligonucleotides on the Version 2 (V.2) array includes:

9,241 oligos based on the TIGR B. malayi gene models (predicted genes)

1,889 oligos based on TIGR gene indices (EST clusters and singletons not represented in the gene models above)

81 oligos based on NEMBASE EST clusters (those not already represented above)

675 oligos based on EST clusters from L3 EST clusters from Wash. U. Parasite Genomes (those not already represented above)

878 oligos based on EST clustering of W. bancrofti data (those not already represented above)

1,016 oligos based TIGR O. volvulus gene indices (EST clusters and singletons not already represented above)

804 oligos based on the search of the Wolbachia complete genome for open reading frames

3,569 oligos based on the original B. malayi EST clusters from the version 1 array (McPherson oligos)

For further information, please contact Steven A. Williams, Director, Molecular Division FR3 at genome@smith.edu