But how, exactly, does this process work? To better understand how microarray analysis is carried out, consider the example experiment described in the following sections.

Steve Fodor and colleagues at Affymax built the first scanner in 1989, around the same time as they built their first microarray. A photograph on the Affymetrix Web site captures the device. It shows ...

Now, because of a new microarray facility on campus, funded in part by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, he is getting back into microarray work.