The CDMC is a microarray facility for Canadian and international academic scientists working with Drosophila. There are two main objectives of the CDMC:

·  To produce and provide Drosophila DNA microarrays on glass slides.

·  To provide a microarray experiment service facility where the scientist provides a sample of RNA (or DNA) to be tested and the service technician converts it to a labelled cDNA, hybridizes it to a microarray, scans it and performs the initial analysis. Both the microarrays and the experiment service will be provided to the researchers for a nominal cost.

In addition, the CDMC has or intends to:

·  Provide information and protocols for the use of the Drosophila microarrays.

·  Supply individual EST clones used to make the array for a nominal cost.

·  Support the creation and use of a Drosophila microarray experiment database and analysis of software.

The CDMC is federally funded with a grant coming from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (Major Facilities Access Grant).