Agilent Microarray Scanner

Agilent makes a scanner for scanning DNA microarrays labeled with Cy5 and Cy3. The following are some brief notes:

• The scanner is NOT self balancing. It has no ability to balance the Red and Green channels.

• The TIF images produced by the scanner are dual layer images. When opening them in Axon GenePix, the green image is first and must be assigned wavelength 532, followed by assigning the red image 635.