Table 4.
Reproducibility of the antibody microarray set-up, expressed as coefficient of variation (CV), for non-normalized data. The same serum sample was analysed on four identical 14 × 8 antibody subarrays printed on two separate slides of each solid support.
| Array Features | Epoxy Glass | Epoxy Polymer | Black MaxiSorp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spot-to-spot | 4.7 ± 7.7 | 4.1 ± 5.2 | 3.3 ± 3.0 |
| Array-to-array | 26.4 ± 15.0 | 19.5 ± 6.5 | 3.6 ± 0.6 |
| Slide-to-slide | 34.3 ± 11.6 | 29.0 ± 15.7 | 12.2 ± 3.6 |