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Summary: Providing a comprehensive and real-world examination of biochip technologies, this book goes on to explore their applications to drug discovery. The book presents a detailed overview of the current state of biochip technology, examining the effects of biochips on biomedical research and specifically the pharmaceutical industry. It offers discussions of technology platforms in detail and explores the clinical relevance of biochips, ChIP-chip assays, and high-throughput approaches, and includes applications in the study of disease, drug-safety and toxicogenomics, and pharmacogenomics and single nucleotide poymorphisms. It also covers intellectual property concerns. |