Panmicrobial microarrays

摘要: Microarrays were invented in mid-1980s, started their path to prominence in the 1990s, and were the hottest technology in biology during the first half of 2000s. At the end of the decade, new-generation sequencing (its current name; at the time it was dubbed “next generation,” but nowadays it is the current generation, so it has been rebranded) had outperformed them, along with the advent of real-time PCR and better multiwell formats, which both undermined the microarray glamor and promise by offering improved conservative approaches. Inertia alone is responsible for some publications appearing till mid-2010. But the advent of microfluidics may have kick-started another session of microarrays, since some respective publications on the subject from the second half of 2010 indicate a new breed differentiating into three applications: biosensors, stand-alone assays for point-of-care and more conventional, in-lab …