Reaffirmed 2023

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 16578 : 2013 ‘Molecular biomarker analysis — General definitions and requirements for microarray detection of specific nucleic acid sequences’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture Sectional Committee and approval of Food and Agriculture Division Council.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.