title: Microarray data representation, annotation and storage.
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
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation-Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK. brazma@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alvis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brazma
authors.forename: Ugis
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sarkans
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Jaak
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vilo
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vingron
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoheisel
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fellenberg
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D015870:Gene Expression; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012985:Software Design