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Nature Cell Biology 7, 550 (1 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncb0605-550

On the bright side of microarrays

Jack Horne

The lack of agreement between gene expression studies that use DNA microarrays is a prime example of the kind of problems that are associated with high-throughput data sets. Although the results have been mixed, several studies that directly compare different types of microarray platforms have shown significant variability when comparing across platforms.