The Nordic Microarray Collaboration
Nordic resource centers for microarray production and analysis have established close links and initiated an effort to save work and resources through collaborations concerning clone collections, production of more specialised arrays, and developement of common elements of database and bioinformatics tools. The aim is to develop these collaborations further, and to extend the network of collaborating institutions. NEW: You may read about the collaboration in 
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A human gene collection of 40 000 sequence-verified IMAGE clones is being
produced through a collaboration between the Norwegian Radium Hospital (University
of Oslo), the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and the university of
Lund. 20000 mouse probes, and 14000 rat genes, will be produced through similar
collaborations between the University of Bergen and Umeå University, and
the University of Trondheim and Karolinska Institute. Plans are made to extend
the collaborations to include less commonly used model orgnaisms, such as E.coli,
yeast, arabidopsis, zebrafish, drosophila etc. Groups interested in such organisms
should congregate and discuss common efforts, perhaps in collaboration with
groups already involved in the technology, to create a Nordic resource center
for each orgnism that could produce arrays for all Nordic groups.
In addition there are efforts to establish front line competence in microarray
bioinformatics at all institutions. Discussions are under way to achieve synergies
also on this field, to save resources used for infrastructure and employ these
on research and developement instead.
In Finland there is a National
Core Facility for microarray production in Turku.
A second meeting was held at the Royal Institute of technology 14th of November
2001. More info will follow.
This web page is maintained by Ola Myklebost,
and will be updated with links to the various institutions and information about
the resources available if you email links to me.
On request from groups interested in specific organisms, subpages will be
created, with information on intersts, resources and services for each organism.