Selected Reading
By M. Tevfik Dorak

Vendor

Luminex Corporation, Bio-Rad

Affymetrix

Illumina

Applied Biosystems

Idaho Technology,
Roche Applied Science

Sequenom

Biotage

Orchid Biosciences, Beckman Coulter

Applied Biosystems

Further Reading

J.B. Fan et al., "Highly parallel genomic assays," Nat Rev Genetics, 7:632-644, 2006. [PMID: 16847463]
Not only discusses the DNA array technologies for genotyping, also reviews genomic profiling on SNP-CGH (comparative genomic hybridization) arrays, sequencing and gene expression arrays.

C.D. Mamotte, "Genotyping of single nucleotide substitutions," Clin Biochem Rev, 27:63-75, 2006. [PMID: 16886048]
A highly illustrated, detailed and extensive review of genotyping methods.

F.J. Steemers, K.L. Gunderson, "Whole genome genotyping technologies on the BeadArray? platform," Biotechnol J, 2:41-49, 2007. [PMID: 17225249]
A detailed, well illustrated report on Illumina?s BeadArray platform and its use in genotyping as well as detection of chromosomal...

A.C. Syvanen, "Accessing genetic variation: genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms," Nat Rev Genet, 2:930-942, 2001. [PMID: 11733746]
Discusses biochemical reaction principles, assay formats, detection methods of genotyping schemes and provides a side-by-side comparison of a comprehensive number of platforms with plenty of illustrations.

Z. Tsuchihashi, N.C. Dracopoli, "Progress in high-throughput SNP genotyping methods," Pharmacogenomics J, 2:103-110, 2002. [PMID: 12049172]
Discusses the genotyping methods suitable for high-throughput including pyrosequencing, mass spectrophotometry and FRET, bead and array-based methods.

http://www.dorak.info/genetics/realtime.html
My website with dozens more resources on real time PCR.

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