MAGETabulator, a suite of tools to support the microarray data format MAGE-TAB

Tim F Rayner; Faisal Ibne Rezwan; Margus Lukk; Xiangqun Zheng Bradley; Anna Farne; Ele Holloway; James Malone; Eleanor Williams; Helen Parkinson

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn617

MAGETabulator, a suite of tools to support the microarray data format MAGE-TAB

Bioinformatics. 2009 Jan 15;25(2):279-80. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn617. Epub 2008 Nov 27.

Authors

Tim F Rayner¹, Faisal Ibne Rezwan, Margus Lukk, Xiangqun Zheng Bradley, Anna Farne, Ele Holloway, James Malone, Eleanor Williams, Helen Parkinson

Affiliation

¹ EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. [email protected]

Abstract

The MAGE-TAB format for microarray data representation and exchange has been proposed by the microarray community to replace the more complex MAGE-ML format. We present a suite of tools to support MAGE-TAB generation and validation, conversion between existing formats for data exchange, visualization of the experiment designs encoded by MAGE-TAB documents and the mining of such documents for semantic content.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Databases, Genetic
Gene Expression Profiling
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
Software Validation
Software*