“…Several of the more common strategies for the detection of hybridization between a single-stranded oligonucleotide probe and a complementary DNA target sequence include those that involve the use of tags with characteristic properties (such as fluorescence, 1 color, [2][3][4] luminescence, 5 or radioactivity 6 ), gold colloids 4,[7][8] or gold colloids enhanced with silver metal [9][10][11] and/or microscopy, 12 surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, 13 surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, 14 electrochemistry, 15 quartz crystal microbalance, 16 scanometry, 17 digital cameras, 17 or light scattering. 18 However, only some of these techniques have been applied to the high-throughput screening of DNA microarrays.…”