The application for array quality is to provide guidance and valuable insights into quality control for the protein microarray. A protein microarray or also named as protein chip is a high-throughput method used to track the interactions and activities of proteins, and to determine their function, and determining function on a large scale (Melton, 2004). Its main advantage lies in the fact that large numbers of proteins can be tracked in parallel. The chip consists of a support surface such as a glass slide, nitrocellulose membrane, bead, or microtitre plate, to which an array of capture proteins is bound (Schena, 2005). Protein microarrays are rapid, automated, economical, and highly sensitive, consuming small quantities of samples and reagents (Mitchell, 2004). The high-throughput technology behind the protein microarray was relatively easy to develop since it is based on the technology developed for DNA microarrays (Hall, Ptacek and Snyder, 2012)which have become the most widely used microarrays.
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