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To: Falstaff who wrote (7550)	3/9/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: timwa	Respond to of 9695

Well, it looks like the person "overseeing current manufacturing operations in Sunnyvale, California and the completion and validation of Affymetrix's newest manufacturing facility in West Sacramento, California" came from Seagate, a JMAR customer. biz.yahoo.com

To: Falstaff who wrote (7550)	3/9/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: timwa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

Affymetrix info from Fortune article: pathfinder.com Affymetrix, by contrast, builds probes from scratch. Borrowing from the semiconductor industry, it first coats a glass wafer with a light-sensitive chemical that blocks nucleotides from sticking. Intense light is then shone through a stencil-like mask onto the chip, stripping away the chemical in a defined pattern. Next the chip is bathed with one kind of nucleotide, say C. The molecules bind where the blocking chemical was removed. The process is repeated, superimposing a second layer of nucleotide, say T, in a different pattern. Further repetition with different masks builds up a myriad of probes with desired nucleotide sequences--40 cycles can create a million variations.