Affymetrix Gene Expression

Affymetrix has been market leader in gene expression for many years, providing its customers with the conventional GeneChip arrays for all standard model organisms in research. With the addition of the GeneTitan™ instrument, ServiceXS can now accomodate high-throughput demands at low costs with the GeneTitan array plates in additional to the flexibility obtained by the cartridge GeneChips.

Transcriptomics solutions within our Affymetrix microarray platform offers you the following type of arrays: 3' IVT Expression Analysis arrays, Exon Arrays, Gene 1.0 ST arrays and Tiling arrays. To see which array is available for your organism and its technical information, click on the organism of interest below:

• Human (U133+ 2.0, GeneST, Exon and more)
• Mouse (MG 430, GeneST, Exon and more)
• Rat (RG 230, GeneST, Exon and more)
• Other model organism and custom arrays

ServiceXS is proud to offer Affymetrix gene expression services under the ISO 17025 accreditation scope. We start with a quality control on your total RNA before commencing the project. We execute labeling and hybridization assays according to our Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs), and assess the performance of the experiments by looking critically at the data before reporting results. Our guidelines provide you with a complete service description and transparancy in workflow.

We provide gene expression services for projects of minimally 8 samples per batch (for cartridges) and 16 samples for GeneTitan plates (16, 24 or 96-formats). Our turnaround times are generally 4 to 6 weeks from sample delivery to data transfer. Our project managers and senior technicians provide regular updates on the progress of your expression project.

Complementary services:

ServiceXS is at the moment validating a specialized protocol for samples with low RNA quantities. This service is already up-and-running on the Illumina microarray platform. Soon you can run samples with as low as 500 picograms on Affymetrix GeneChips.

Next to that, we also offer you the possibility to validate your microarray results with a high-throughput real time PCR platform. Contact us for more information.