title: ProbeMatchDB--a web database for finding equivalent probes across microarray platforms and species.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  ProbeMatchDB is a web-based database designed to facilitate the search of EST/cDNA sequences or STS markers that can be used to represent the same gene across different microarray platforms and species. It can be used for finding equivalent EST clones in the Research Genetics sequence verified clone set based on results from Affymetirx GeneChips. It will also help to identify probes representing orthologous genes across human, mouse and rat on different microarray platforms.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The database is accessible at http://brainarray.mhri.med.umich.edu/MARRAY/BC_ASP/brainarray.htm by clicking the 'Query ProbeMatchDB' link.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Pinglang
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Hsienyuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Stanley J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015342:DNA Probes / Q000235:genetics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D051381:Rats; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes