Abstract
In their annual conference in 2008, the Chip Diagnostics and Bioinformatics Working Groups of the Joint German Society of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine dealt with applications of array-based technology in the field of pathology. The major themes of the conference were new developments in area of tissue arrays, multi-parametric analysis in epigenetic gene regulation, and array ...
Abstract
In their annual conference in 2008, the Chip Diagnostics and Bioinformatics Working Groups of the Joint German Society of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine dealt with applications of array-based technology in the field of pathology. The major themes of the conference were new developments in area of tissue arrays, multi-parametric analysis in epigenetic gene regulation, and array comparative genomic hybridization. These methods are already being widely used in the characterization of tumour cells and tissue and represent a significant advance in cancer diagnostics. One important result of the meeting was the recognition that in the field of highly parallel analysis, the technical possibilities currently exceed our ability to put them to clinical use. For this reason, there is a particularly pressing need for accompanying clinical research in order to better,define the uses and importance of these diagnostic tools.
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