Table 2.

Requirements for a viral DNA arraying project

Genomic sequence data from several strains of the target viruses

Sets of PCR primers for making amplicons to be bound as probes to the solid phase or sets of synthetic oligonucleotides to be bound as probes to the solid phase

An arraying instrument

Generic and multiplex PCR assays for amplifying and fluorescently labelling target DNA/RNA

Hybridisation and washing chambers

A scanner to capture readout data from the array

Software to interpret array readout data