Welcome to the Prostate Centre Microarray Facility

The Prostate Centre Microarray Facility offers rapid and economical access to a comprehensive set of microarray services for academic and private sector groups. We provide:

• experimental design to address all steps of the microarray experiment
• RNA purification and quality control with the Agilent BioAnalyzer 2100
• Agilent and Nimblegen microarray platforms for expression and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) studies
• spotted custom oligonucleotide and cDNA microarrays
• custom antibody and peptide/protein microarrays
• full service pipeline for the development of cDNA microarrays for non-model organisms
• bioinformatics and statistical tools and support for simple and
complex data analysis
• training and support to our collaborators’ and clients’ scientific personal and projects
• custom antibody and peptide/protein microarrays

The facility is keenly interested in technological advances in the area of microarray and welcomes all projects.

Please see our Acknowledgment Policy

Benefits to your research projects:

• Ongoing internal and external collaborations allow our facility to continually improve our R&D capabilities

• Service prices are based on a cost-recovery, not-for-profit model, supported by Genome Canada

• Access to state-of-the-art equipment and software