Future DArT™ Developments and Collaborative Improvements
See page describing improvements that have already been made by our licensees for specific crops.
We anticipate that this BioForge project will help others make the technology more cost-effective for use in a variety of settings, and improve accuracy and ease of analysis.
Your suggestions and experience with any of the following, and any other ideas, are welcome in our Discussion Forum.
Substrates: You may have ideas or data to support implementation of substrates that will be cheaper without sacrificing the 10,000+ spotting capability of the glass slides currently in use.
Platforms: The microarrayer currently used to provide DArT genotyping services is the single most expensive piece of machinery involved in the process; it alone makes DArT prohibitively expensive for many researchers. You may have ideas or data to support implementation of more accessible platforms for the technology.
Imaging: The fluorescent dyes and imaging techniques used to locate polymorphisms and points of hybridization are capital-intensive components of DArT. More affordable variations of these techniques or cheapter alternatives will make the technology much more accessible.
Software and Data Analysis: This is a prime area for improvements in implementing off-the-shelf software for color conversion and data analysis more useful, and more robust statistical methods and analysis used to evaluate polymorphism data.
All licensees commit to an ongoing refinement and improvement of the Diversity Arrays technology; the online collaboration and sharing of methodologies and techniques will help to expedite implementation of these improvements by the community.
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