RT Journal
A1 George, Reed A.
A1 Woolley, John Patrick
A1 Spellman, Paul T.
T1 Ceramic Capillaries for Use in Microarray Fabrication
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2001 
FD October 01 
VO 11 
IS 10 
SP 1780 
OP 1783 
DO 10.1101/gr.190801 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/10/1780.abstract 
AB We have used ceramic capillary tips generally used in the microelectronics industry for the production of DNA microarrays. The ceramic tips improve the morphology of microarray elements, allow higher element density, and increase printing tip life over the customary slotted stainless-steel pins. Ceramic tips are less expensive than steel pins and allow printing from 1536-well sample source plates. In this work, we describe experiments that establish printing performance of the ceramic tips and hybridization experiments that show that DNA hybridization is unaffected by the choice of tip material.