title: Addressing the biomedical informatics needs of a microarray laboratory in a clinical microbiology context.
abstract: For an effective integration of microarray-based technologies in clinical settings a number of contributions from biomedical informatics technologies and techniques are needed to facilitate the improvement of the phases of experimental design, image analysis, data management, annotation, and analysis. In this communication we briefly present the state-of-the-art in the application of biomedical informatics to laboratories conducting microarray experiments and how our unit is coping with these requirements imposed by the routine clinical work of the National Centre of Microbiology, a reference laboratory for the Spanish Health System.
authors.affiliation: Medical Bioinformatics Department National Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lopez-Campos
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lopez Alonso
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martin-Sanchez
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D008828:Microbiological Techniques; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D040081:Protein Array Analysis; D013030:Spain