%0 Journal Article %T The Journal Microarrays %A Shu-Kun Lin %J Microarrays %D 2012 %I MDPI AG %R 10.3390/microarrays1010001 %X Our publishing company MDPI AG has its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland where there are thousands of scientists working in the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies and institutes including Novartis [1], F. Hoffmann-La Roche [2] and institutes affiliated with University of Basel [3]. In 1996, the first annual microplate conference MipTec was held in Basel, and the MipTec 2011 was held a few days ago in Basel [4]. I published a paper on microplate standardization presented at MipTec 1996 in MDPI¡¯s longest-running journal Molecules [5-7]. [....] %U http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3905/1/1/1