The Yeast6k Array is a microarray containing approximately 6000 intergenic regions from S. cerevisiae. It has been used in a number of papers from the laboratory of Richard Young, including:

Harbison, Christopher T., et al. "Transcriptional regulatory code of a eukaryotic genome." Nature 431, 99-104 (2 September 2004).

The Young Lab's Supplemental Methods for the Harbinson et al. paper give the following description of the Yeast6k Array:

Using the Yeast Intergenic Region Primer set (Research Genetics) we PCR amplified and printed approximately 6000 DNA fragments, representing essentially all of the known intergenic regions in the yeast genome. The average size of the spotted PCR produces was 480 bp, and the sizes ranged from 60bp to 1500 bp.

For a list of the probe names from the Yeast6k Array and corresponding sequences, in FASTA format, see here.

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