But what Canonical wants to build isn't just an Ubuntu-powered smartphone – it's a "low-volume, high-technology platform, crowdfunded by enthusiasts and mobile computing professionals" designed to "accelerate the adoption of new technologies and drive them down into the mainstream," according to Canonical's project page.
This can largely be attributed to the development of physical maps, cataloguing of genes and development of high-density SNP maps along with high-throughput technology platforms and statistical advances that came out of the HGP.
In recent years, the antibody microarray technology has made significant progress, going from proof-of-concept designs to established high-performing technology platforms capable of targeting non-fractionated complex proteomes.
The recent expansion of high-throughput technology platforms including low-cost sequencing of circulating and tumor-derived DNA and RNA and rapid reliable quantification of microRNA offers new opportunities to build extended prediction models across multiplatform data.
Finally, the advent of several new high-throughput technology platforms including RNA sequencing, microRNA profiling and analysis of free circulating DNA allows substantial broadening of the variable space for multivariate model development.
With its strong technology platform, high margin profile and good growth prospects, the business is perfectly aligned with our specialty in vitro diagnostics strategy".
In our comparison of the MPSS, Affymetrix and Agilent normalized abundance data, we observed that the RNA samples exhibited higher correlations within the technology platform used to measure RNA abundance rather than expected similarities due to the biological nature of the samples.
The RPPA represents a high-throughput and sensitive technology platform for quantitative and multiplexed immunoassays, in which small amounts of cell lysates or fluids (e.g., serum and urine) are immobilized on individual spots onto a capturing surface called microarray that is then incubated with a single specific antibody to detect the expression of the target protein across many samples.
This technology platform enables high throughput screening and picking of up to 10,000 mammalian clones in three weeks.
Achieving such high level performance required an integrated technology platform enabling detailed engineering of enzyme, pathway, metabolic network, and organism, as well as development of effective fermentation and downstream recovery processes.
The protein microarray chip with its high throughput capacity provides a perfect technology platform.
