Method and system for providing a probe array chip design database

• Main Authors: HUBBELL EARL, CHEUNG GLORIA, MITTMAN MICHAEL, DAI JOSIE, BALABAN DAVID
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.08.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATING; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; COMPUTING; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; COUNTING; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HOLOGRAPHY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SELECTING; SPIRITS; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

Systems and method for organizing information relating to the design of polymer probe array chips including oligonucleotide array chips. A database model is provided which organizes information interrelating probes on a chip, genomic items investigated by the chip, and sequence information relating to the design of the chip. The model is readily translatable into database languages such as SQL. The database model scales to permit storage of information about large numbers of chips having complex designs.