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Journal of Nucleic Acids
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 283560, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/283560
Research Article

Expression Profiling of a Heterogeneous Population of ncRNAs Employing a Mixed DNA/LNA Microarray

Konstantinia Skreka,1 Marek Zywicki,1 Michael Karbiener,2 Alexander Hüttenhofer,1 Marcel Scheideler,2 and Mathieu Rederstorff1,3

1Section for Genomics and RNomics, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Fritz Pregl Strasse 3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
2Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria
3Université de Lorraine, CNRS-UMR 7214 AREMS, 9 avenue de la Forêt de Haye, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Received 30 November 2011; Revised 6 March 2012; Accepted 6 March 2012

Academic Editor: Ashis K. Basu

Copyright © 2012 Konstantinia Skreka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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