Production of Glycan and Custom Microarray

Production of Glycan and Custom Microarray

The National Institutes of Health continues to encourage research in the area of glycomics through its Common Fund. Through support for organic synthesis of glycans, generation of glycans from biological sources through chemical release of glycans and other newly developed amplification processes, glycans are becoming more and more available to the research community.

Having glycans available and immobilized as microarrays on glass slides or on plastic and magnetic beads represent important resources that the EGMIC makes available to the Emory and Atlanta Area scientific community.   In addition to glycans, our printers are capable of printing microarrays of proteins and polysaccharides to generate high throughput immunoassays on microarrays slide.  

Contact EGMIC to get an initial free consultation on your printing project. Following information are generally needed such as printing sample list and layout, type of immilization surface, array amount andtimeline.  See Methods section for more detailed work flow for microarray production and assay.

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