Tracking data

Spotted Samples
The key piece of information that has to be recorded when using microarrays
concerns the nature of the elements that are spotted on the array. Depending
on exactly what is being spotted, and how it was generated, these data may
be in the form of DBEST clone IDs and accession numbers, polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) primer sequences, or sequences of long oligonucleotides that
are spotted on the array. It has been argued that sequences should be mandatory
because each clone on an array can be represented in public databases by
several different IDs and accession numbers.