Custom Arraying Services
Utilize Gentel's technical expertise in protein microarray production by outsourcing your custom slide arraying. Provide Gentel with your antibodies or proteins and we will array your desired substrate using our industry leading array production facility.
Whether you are just starting out with microarrays and learning what applications will be useful for your research or you require large scale OEM array production, Gentel's flexible arraying technology can meet you needs.
Benefits
- Flexibility of our platform enables arraying of virtually any substrate in any layout formats
- Reduce financial risk of purchasing costly arraying instrumentation
- Benefit from our arraying expertise for proteins and lysates
- Focus efforts on your core competencies
- Expand your capacities with our high volume production capabilities
- Accelerate your research or access to the market
Gentel can also advise and/or provide:
- What types of substrates is best suited to your applications
- Where to get source materials
- What types of controls to include
- What types of sample arraying buffers to use
- Optimal array layouts
- How to use, handle and store the arrays after production
- Structural QC
- Functional QC
- Custom printed slides processing
Process for Designing Your Custom Array:
- Choose the type of array you would like to do.
- Protein, DNA, cell lysate, peptide, glycan.
- Protein-protein, sandwich assay, reverse array, single-capture antibody array.
- Decide on the number of capture probes and controls to be printed and the number of replicates of each probe.
- Notify us of the type of buffer your capture probes are suspended in. We recommend our Gentel Printing Buffer (Product No. 2-1012) for protein and lysate printing.
- Pick a substrate or slide type that you would like your samples to be printed on. We recommend using our thin-nitrocellulose slides.
- Select the number of replicate array grids per slide. Our SIMplex grids are ideal for multiplexing 1×8, 2×8, and 3×8 replicate array grids on standard 1" by 3" slides.
- Decide on the layout of your arrays. This includes the spot to spot printing distance (300-500 µm recommended), number of drops/spot (about 300-400 pL per spot) or desired volume of printed material, order of capture probes within the array, and spot dimensions of your arrays.
- Choose the number of substrates or slides you would like printed.
Ordering Information – Custom Array Printing
If you are interested in ordering a custom array, please fill out this form and a Gentel representative will contact you shortly with more details about your request.
Feel free to contact our arraying scientists if you have any questions about designing your custom array.
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Custom Arraying