Margaret Kathleen Faber

Novel Surface Technologies for Genomics, Proteomics, and Drug Discovery

Following the recent progress in functional genomics and proteomics, and high-throughput screening (HTS) in drug discovery, evolving technologies over the last decade have offered a tremendous leap over the caveats of traditional techniques. In response to this metamorphosis of technologies through different platforms, Corning has introduced a suite of surface technologies with applications in microarray printing, enhanced attachment, and consumables in drug discovery. Microarrays generated on an ultra-flat glass substrate with GAPS coating exhibiting a robust chemistry and low surface background have led to higher sensitivity and reproducibility for the expression assay. Recent introduction of UltraGAPS™ surface enables oligo attachment for use in differential gene expression analysis. Various attachment surfaces to meet the needs of the applications in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery will be discussed.