• Introduction
  • Why Almac?
  • People
  • Facilities
• Biomarker Discovery and Validation
  • Companion Diagnostics
  • Pharmacodynamic Biomarkers
  • Prognostic tests
  • Drug Repositioning
  • Consultancy
• Bioinformatics Solutions
  • Our Approach
  • Solutions
  • People and Experience
  • Tools and Innovation
• Genomic services
  • Gene Expression and SNP analysis
  • qPCR and cell line modelling
  • Bioinformatics
• Proprietary Discovery Arrays
  • Unique Content
  • Work with FFPE and fresh frozen tissue
  • Discover Targets, signatures and answers
• Resources
  • Technical Documentation
  • Posters and presentations
  • Publications

Proprietary Discovery Arrays

We have developed a portfolio of proprietary discovery arrays for specific disease indications and also for studies involving multiple and cross disease areas, both based on the industry standard Affymetrix GeneChip® platform.

Xcel™

Our Xcel™ array is the optimal platform for biomarker discovery that enables the identification of biomarkers within multiple disease areas. Xcel™ array contains 92,000 transcripts; significantly more than is available on any other platform and the technology is optimised for use with Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) tissue.

Cancer DSA ®

Our Cancer DSA ^® research tools are the first high-density transcriptome based microarrays which focus on the transcriptome of a particular disease. They contain the most comprehensive information available for the disease under investigation on a single array and enable the obtaining of robust data from FFPE and frozen samples, while delivering additional information on the disease setting.