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Biotech / Medical : AFFYMETRIX (AFFX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Starks who wrote (941)	8/4/1999 4:39:00 AM
From: jpbrody	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1728

Hey, I'm an occasional chip user in the academic world. We've considered using Affy chips but they are really too expensive. (They would be about $1000-2000 per chip and it's always hard to get things to work on the first try, so you might not.) But the thing I wanted to point out was that the INCY technology grew out of an academic laboratory. (The guy who started Synteni, which is now INCY's chip division, was a graduate from Stanford's biochemistry department, where the technology was originally developed.) What we, and most academics (and many biotech companies) are doing is building our own chips using the technology developed at Stanford. It's really not that hard, it costs maybe $100,000 in parts. There is still a substantial cost in supplies though. We are paying $30-$50 per experiment to Amersham-Pharmacia for fluorescent dyes and $10 or so per experiment for commercial slides. Some of the slide makers are: surmodics.com corning.com Just some of my experiences. -Jim