Refinement of single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping methods on human genomic DNA: amplifluor allele-specific polymerase chain reaction versus ligation detection reaction-TaqMan.

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have proven to be powerful genetic markers for a variety of genetic applications, e.g., association studies leading to dissection of both monogenetic and complex diseases.

Large-scale plant proteomics.

Large-scale and high throughput approaches increasingly play an essential role in the study of biological systems, which are per se highly complex. Therefore, they need to be examined by these extensive methods to receive information about the large genomic and proteomic networks. In plant biology, this purpose has a strong support through the accessability of the complete genome sequence of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.