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Biotech / Medical : AFFYMETRIX (AFFX)
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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (927)7/24/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland   of 1728
 
Terabytes of data? I put together this answer
based on what I read at that first url: Multiply
expression levels of thousands of genes and mutants
times numerous growth and disease states

here is a good article
It's sink or swim as a tidal wave of data approaches
Nature 399, 517-520 (1999) Briefing

petabyte=1,000 terabytes
exabyte=1,000 petabyte
All the words ever spoken by human beings amount
to about five exabytes.

nature.com

Here is the next question--building molecular movies:
Message 10507272

Here is the link to The Matrix
biospace.com
(...and now I am reminded what else is important when
distinguishing these chips--speed)
Nanogen:
Gallahue notes that the company has developed a 10,000 electrode array as part of a partnership on drug discovery applications with Aventis Research and Technologies (an affiliate of Hoechst AG). But he believes the applications the company will pursue initially can be served by the chip now in beta tests.

"What makes us different is speed and specificity, as well as the ability to create your own array," says Gallahue. All of these aspects are made possible by the electronic aspect of Nanogen's chip.
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