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Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
The facility provides researchers with molecular profiling technology services including: Affymetrix and spotted glass arrays, microarray information data base, quantitative PCR, comprehensive data analysis, mouse clone sets, human cDNA clone sets, and GeneChips.
http://www.bcm.edu/mcfweb/
Brown Cancer Center
The center provides microarray services including: sample preparation for microarray analysis, RNA amplification, quality and quantity assessment of samples, array hybridizations and primary data collections, assistance in comparative data analysis, data-mining, statistical evaluations and pathway analysis.
http://browncancercenter.org/research/sh_microarray.aspx
Iowa State University
The facility provides access to instruments to produce and scan microarrays.
http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/service_facilities/microarray.html
Kansas University Medical Center
The facility operates using the GeneChip system as well as the Affymetrix 428 Slide Array Scanner allowing expression analysis to be performed upon custom spotted arrays.
http://www2.kumc.edu/mrrc/microarray/
Mississippi Functional Genomics Network
The facility has a Packard multiprobe IIex robotic liquid handling system to automate many high throughput procedures such as DNA plasmid purification and RNA extractions. It has a Packard Biochip arrayer that can be used to make specialized subarrays.
http://mfgn.usm.edu/mfgn/modules.php?name=Facilities&file=genomics
NYS Department of Health, Wadsworth Center (Center for Bioinformatics)
Ongoing research into the following: identification of subtle sequence signals in non-coding DNA, RNA structure prediction and gene regulation, Bayesian Bioinformatics, algorithms and applications, Prokaryotic transcription, regulatory networks, and mechanisms of eukaryotic gene regulation
http://bayesweb.wadsworth.org/
Oklahoma State University (Microarray Core Facility)
The facility specializes in experimental design and the production of custom cDNA microarrays, human, mouse, Candida albicans, and zebrafish microarrays. It has two microarrayer platforms, a macroarrayer system and two microarray laser scanners, and computers for image and data analysis.
http://microarray.okstate.edu/
Syracuse University
The facility gives the ability to design, print and analyze microarray assays that can be custom-fit. OmniGrid 100 (Gene Machine) is used for printing microarray slides and a 4100A Array Scanner (Axon) is used for scanning the slides.
http://biology.syr.edu/facilities.html
The Institute for Genomic Research's Program for Genomic Application
The program is investigating interactions between the environment and disease using rodent models of human disease and cDNA microarray assays to elucidate patterns of gene expression in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
http://pga.tigr.org/
The Texas A&M University System (Microarray Facility)
The facility distributes human 21K, rat 27K, mouse 35K, and pig 11K arrays.
http://mphywww.tamu.edu/Microarray/microarrays.html
The University of Cincinnati Genomics and Microarray Laboratory
The facility has a 48-pin microarrayer, two dual laser fluorescent scanners, an Agilent Bioanalyzer, a tetrad thermocycler for 96- and 384-well plates, and a robotic machine dedicated to high-throughput liquid dispensing
http://microarray.uc.edu/
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (DNA Microarray Core Facility)
Based in Arkansas, the core produces custom arrays from PCR products generated from cDNA clones or oligos. The standard arrays offered are: Rat 10K Oligo Array, Human 20K Oligo Array, and Mouse 20K Oligo Array.
http://microarray.uams.edu/ssf.asp
University of Chicago Functional Genomics Facility
The facility based in Chicago provides expertise and equipment for all phases of array-based services.
http://fgf.bsd.uchicago.edu/
University of Kentucky (Microarray Core Facility)
The facility has developed the technology for Affymetrix chips as well as custom cDNA Microarrays.
http://www.mc.uky.edu/UKMicroArray/microarray_facility_pilot_program.htm
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center's Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core Facility
The center offers pathway-specific arrays from SuperArray and custom arrays.
http://www.umich.edu/~caparray/
University of Minnesota (BioMedical Genomics Center)
Provides target preparation from total RNA, hybridization, scanning and basic data analysis services researchers for GeneChip microarrays.  They also offer custom cDNA and oligo array printing and scanning services.
http://www.bmgc.umn.edu/bmgc/facilities/microarray/home.html
University of Missouri - Columbia (DNA Core Facility)
Provides Affymetrix and Illumina services.
http://biotech.rnet.missouri.edu/dnacore/
University of Nebraska Lincoln (Printed Microarray Core Facility)
The facility operates spotted platforms for both DNA and protein microarrays. The facility has all of the necessary instruments for complete array experiments, from array fabrication to primary data analysis.
http://pmcf.unl.edu/
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Program for Genomic Applications
The center is conducting research into heart disease: new SNPs that might be causative in heart disease, analyzing expression data in tissues and conditions modeling heart disease, and the creation of new computer programs for predicting the likelihood of mutations that might be associated with heart disease.
http://pga.swmed.edu/
Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Applied Genomics Technology Center
The facility can receive gene expression data from total RNA samples or isolate RNA. New services are Affymetrix resequencing (sequence data for up to 30kb of double stranded DNA) and mapping arrays (up to 10,000 polymorphisms on one array).
http://www.bioinformatics.wayne.edu/

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