“…The use of fluorescent dyes (Cy3, Cy5, FITC, Alexa fluor 647, Alexa fluor 555, and Alexa fluor 488), radioisotopes ( 32 P, 33 P, and 14 C), near-infrared dyes (phthalocyanine dyes, polymethine carbocyanine dyes, IRDye 800CW, IRDye 750, and IRDye 800), and enzymes (horseradish peroxidase) falls under the category of label-dependent. Importantly, fluorescent dyes (Cy3 label, Cy5,FITC, Alexa flour 647, Alexa fluor 555, Alexa 488, CF555 or CF647, DyLight ® 650, DyLight ® 550 [ 69 ], and Green 540 [ 95 ]) were preferred in most of the microarray articles [ 46 , 49 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 61 , 65 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 77 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 93 , 97 , 134 , 135 , 136 ]. The reason for this could be their ease of availability, the established protocol to conjugate the dyes, their use for designing a multiplex assay, and the commercially available screening instrumentation (confocal microscope, LuxScan 10K, and GenePix pro 6).…”