title: Microbial Diagnostic Array Workstation (MDAW): a web server for diagnostic array data storage, sharing and analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Microarrays are becoming a very popular tool for microbial detection and diagnostics. Although these diagnostic arrays are much simpler when compared to the traditional transcriptome arrays, due to the high throughput nature of the arrays, the data analysis requirements still form a bottle neck for the widespread use of these diagnostic arrays. Hence we developed a new online data sharing and analysis environment customised for diagnostic arrays.
  
  
  METHODS
  Microbial Diagnostic Array Workstation (MDAW) is a database driven application designed in MS Access and front end designed in ASP.NET.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MDAW is a new resource that is customised for the data analysis requirements for microbial diagnostic arrays.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scaria
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Aswathy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sreedharan
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
authors.forename: Yung-Fu
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chang