Abstract
Bioinformatics is a branch in Statistics which is still unpopular among statistics students in Indonesia. Bioinformatics research used microarray technology, because data is available through to microarray experiment on tissue sample at hand. Microarray technology has been widely used to provide data for bioinformatics research, since it was first introduced in late 1990, particularly in life sciences and biotechnology research. The emergence and development of the Covid-19 disease further reinforces the need to understand bioinformatics and its technology. There are two of the most advance platforms in microarray technology, namely, are the Affymetrix GeneChip and Illumina BeadArray. This paper aims to give an overview about microarray technology on the two platforms and the advantage of using them on bioinformatics research.
Highlights
Bioinformatics is an emerging research field in Indonesia, which currently is un popular yet among statistics students. Bartlett et al (2017) said that one future of bioinformatics is: “bioinformatics as an academic discipline, which entails departments, under graduate and postgraduate courses, professional chairs and other structural elements of an established discipline”
Still there are many researchers using the microarray in their research and the reasons have been explained by Bakers (2013)
The application and development of genomic technologies, i.e. microarray, in Indonesia seem rather slow than Singapore and Malaysia let alone in comparison to Europe and US
Summary
Bioinformatics is an emerging research field in Indonesia, which currently is un popular yet among statistics students. Bartlett et al (2017) said that one future of bioinformatics is: “bioinformatics as an academic discipline, which entails departments, under graduate and postgraduate courses, professional chairs and other structural elements of an established discipline”. Bioinformatics is an emerging research field in Indonesia, which currently is un popular yet among statistics students. According to the Decree of Director General of Students and Learning Affairs of the Indonesian Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education Number 46/B/HK/2019, bioinformatics belongs to multi, inter, or trans-discipline field. Mathematics, computer/information technology, chemistry, physics, biology, pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and forestry (Belmawa, 2019). Genomics technologies have developed very fast in recent years from microarrays to the generation sequencing (NGS). The NGS costs decline significantly and it becomes a favor many researchers. The application and development of genomic technologies, i.e. microarray, in Indonesia seem rather slow than Singapore and Malaysia let alone in comparison to Europe and US
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