KUTE-BASE: storing, downloading and exporting MIAME-compliant microarray experiments in minutes rather than hours.
BACKGROUND
The BioArray Software Environment (BASE) is a very popular MIAME-compliant, web-based microarray data repository. However in BASE, like in most other microarray data repositories, the experiment annotation and raw data uploading can be very timeconsuming, especially for large microarray experiments.


RESULTS
We developed KUTE (Karmanos Universal daTabase for microarray Experiments), as a plug-in for BASE 2.0 that addresses these issues. KUTE provides an automatic experiment annotation feature and a completely redesigned data work-flow that dramatically reduce the human-computer interaction time. For instance, in BASE 2.0 a typical Affymetrix experiment involving 100 arrays required 4 h 30 min of user interaction time forexperiment annotation, and 45 min for data upload/download. In contrast, for the same experiment, KUTE required only 28 min of user interaction time for experiment annotation, and 3.3 min for data upload/download.


BACKGROUND
http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/kute/index.html.
Draghici
Sorin
S
Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 431 State Hall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. sod@cs.wayne.edu
Tarca
Adi L
AL
Yu
Longfei
L
Ethier
Stephen
S
Romero
Roberto
R
D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface