Open AccessMicroarray in parasitic infections
Author(s) -
Rakesh Sehgal,
Shubham Misra,
Namrata Anand,
Monika Sharma
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
tropical parasitology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.418
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2229-7758
pISSN - 2229-5070
DOI - 10.4103/2229-5070.97232
Subject(s) - dna microarray , genome , microarray , computational biology , biology , genomics , data science , gene chip analysis , genetics , computer science , gene , gene expression
Modern biology and genomic sciences are rooted in parasitic disease research. Genome sequencing efforts have provided a wealth of new biological information that promises to have a major impact on our understanding of parasites. Microarrays provide one of the major high-throughput platforms by which this information can be exploited in the laboratory. Many excellent reviews and technique articles have recently been published on applying microarrays to organisms for which fully annotated genomes are at hand. However, many parasitologists work on organisms whose genomes have been only partially sequenced. This review is mainly focused on how to use microarray in these situations.