Illumina Beadarray technology applications include expression analysis, SNP genotyping for genome‚wide association studies, QTL mapping, copy number variations, and methylation analysis. Illumina provides off‐the‐shelf high‐density SNP Beadarrays for maize, Arabidopsis, human, bovine, canine, sheep, and pig with additional assays planned as genome sequence becomes available.

ACES Users will be given priority for the first two years.