Criteria

PANArray

DNA microarray

Specificity

Excellent (10 times)

Moderate

Sensitivity

High (10 times)

Low

Speed in hybridization rate

Fast (0.5-1 hr)

Slow (2-10 hr)

Storage stability

Long (at least for 1 yr at RT)

Short (< 3 mon at RT)

Size of target DNA

Long (up to 4 kbp)

Short (<300 bp)

Selectivity from mixed type  

Clean & proportional

Ambiguous

Applications

Diagnostics, expression analysis, SNP even with low density probes

Diagnostics, expression analysis, SNP with high density probes