Microarray data representation, annotation and storage

Alvis Brazma; Ugis Sarkans; Alan Robinson; Jaak Vilo; Martin Vingron; Jörg Hoheisel; Kurt Fellenberg

doi:10.1007/3-540-45713-5_7

Microarray data representation, annotation and storage

Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol. 2002:77:113-39. doi: 10.1007/3-540-45713-5_7.

Authors

Alvis Brazma¹, Ugis Sarkans, Alan Robinson, Jaak Vilo, Martin Vingron, Jörg Hoheisel, Kurt Fellenberg

Affiliation

¹ EMBL Outstation-Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK. [email protected]

PMID: 12227734
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45713-5_7

Abstract

Management and analysis of the huge amounts of data produced by microarray experiments is becoming one of the major bottlenecks in the utilization of this high-throughput technology. We describe the basic design of a microarray gene expression database to help microarray users and their informatics teams to set up their information services. We describe two data models--a simpler one called ArrayExpressB and the complete model ArrayExpressC, and discuss some implementation issues. For latest developments see http: wwwebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Database Management Systems*
Databases, Genetic*
Gene Expression
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Internet
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
Quality Control
Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
Software Design*