Microarrays are nothing without their scanners, the instruments that extract the array's data in computer-readable form. Steve Fodor and colleagues at Affymax built the first scanner in 1989, around ...

With the ever-increasing density of microarrays comes a need for moresensitive and high-throughput ways to read the resulting data. Arrays contain tens of thousands of 50- to 150-μm-diameter spots per ...