“…This was after the first report of microarray-based identification of an unknown corona virus in 2003 [8]. We had also identified, using an in-house designed microarray, Newcastle disease virus from sheep samples when all the conventional method of virus identification failed [20] [8], papillomavirus in cervical lesions [21] parainfluenza virus 4 in nasopharyngeal aspirates [19], influenza virus from nasal washes and throat swabs [11,22], gammaretrovirus in prostate tumours [23], foot and mouth disease virus from animal tissue [24], coronaviruses and rhinoviruses from nasal lavage [25], metapneumovirus from bronchoalveolar lavage [19], filoviruses and malarial parasites in blood in haemorrhagic fever [10], different respiratory pathogens including influenza virus and noninfluenza agents in nasal swabs and lung tissue [26], common foodborne viruses such as coxsackie virus, hepatitis A virus, norovirus and rotavirus [27], simultaneous detection and species identification of herpes viruses HSV-1, HSV-2, varicella-zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and human herpes viruses HHV-6A and HHV-6B [28]. GreeneChip array also facilitated the discovery of Ebola virus Reston in a porcine respiratory illness outbreak in the Philippines [29].…”