1989
First Microarray Prototype
1989
Microarray Fabrication Cell
1993
First Microarray Containing over 1 Million DNA Sequences
2002
GeneChip® Human Genome U133A array
1989
500 Micron Manufacturing Mask:
1993
16-Format Manufacturing Mask
1995
49-Format Manufacturing Mask
1999
400-Format Manufacturing Mask
1994
First Commercial DNA Microarray Prototype
Photocamera
1989
High Contrast film-based Photomask
1989
First Microarray Scanner
1989
First Commercial Scanner
1994
Affymetrix Microarray Scanner by Hewlett-Packard
1997
Affymetrix GeneChip® Scanner 3000
2003
Light-directed, spatially addressable parallel chemical synthesis
SP Fodor, JL Read, MC Pirrung, L Stryer, AT Lu, and D Solas
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