The DNA microarray laboratory in the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, was established in 2001. A supervising committee is formed to define the user-structure and overall direction of this laboratory. A laboratory manager will maintain the core equipments, give technical advices and provide user services. This laboratory is delicate to plant biology research at large by providing high-throughput, miniature technologies for plant functional genomics studies. The URL of this lab is: http://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/microarray/index.htm