Illumina Sentrix Mouse-6 BeadArray Platform: The Mouse6 array consists of 46,116 unique probe sequences, each 50 nucleotides in length, that have been arrayed on glass slides using a novel bead technology.

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ANNOTATION: In spring of 2007, Robert W. Williams and Hongqiang Li reannotated the Illumina Mouse-6 array content. This new annotation is now incorporated into GeneNetwork. For 46166 probes on the Mouse 6 array platform (including control probes) we have identified 35975 NCBI Entrez Gene IDs; 26481 matched human Gene IDs; 23899 matched rat Gene IDs; 26883 NCBI HomoloGene IDs; and 12791 OMIM IDs.

Position data for the 50-mer Illumina Mouse-6 array were initially downloaded from Sanger at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/avc/Illumina/Mouse-6_V1.gff.gz but we then updated all positions by BLAT analysis from mm6 positions to mm8 positions (Hongqiang Li).