1. Plant-based microarray data at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Introducing AtMIAMExpress, a submission tool for Arabidopsis gene expression data to ArrayExpress.
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Mukherjee G, Abeygunawardena N, Parkinson H, Contrino S, Durinck S, Farne A, Holloway E, Lilja P, Moreau Y, Oezcimen A, Rayner T, Sharma A, Brazma A, Sarkans U, and Shojatalab M
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- Academies and Institutes, Computational Biology, Europe, Gene Expression Profiling, Internet, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Software, Triticum genetics, Arabidopsis genetics, Databases, Genetic
- Abstract
ArrayExpress is a public microarray repository founded on the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) principles that stores MIAME-compliant gene expression data. Plant-based data sets represent approximately one-quarter of the experiments in ArrayExpress. The majority are based on Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana); however, there are other data sets based on Triticum aestivum, Hordeum vulgare, and Populus subsp. AtMIAMExpress is an open-source Web-based software application for the submission of Arabidopsis-based microarray data to ArrayExpress. AtMIAMExpress exports data in MAGE-ML format for upload to any MAGE-ML-compliant application, such as J-Express and ArrayExpress. It was designed as a tool for users with minimal bioinformatics expertise, has comprehensive help and user support, and represents a simple solution to meeting the MIAME guidelines for the Arabidopsis community. Plant data are queryable both in ArrayExpress and in the Data Warehouse databases, which support queries based on gene-centric and sample-centric annotation. The AtMIAMExpress submission tool is available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/at-miamexpress/. The software is open source and is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/miamexpress/. For information, contact miamexpress@ebi.ac.uk.
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- 2005
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