Transcriptome and Proteome Research in Veterinary Science: What Is Possible and What Questions Can Be Asked?

Table 1

Advantages and limitations of transcriptomics technologies.

	qPCR arrays	Microarrays	Ref-Seq
Advantage	Highest sensitivity/specificity	Costume-made assays available; less expensive than Ref-Seq	Combination of quantitative and sequence information
Limitation	Only few hundreds of targets measurable in parallel	Less sensitive and specific than qPCR	Less sensitive and specific than qPCR; Expansive