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. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D553-5.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gki056.

ArrayExpress--a public repository for microarray gene expression data at the EBI

H Parkinson  1 , U Sarkans, M Shojatalab, N Abeygunawardena, S Contrino, R Coulson, A Farne, G Garcia Lara, E Holloway, M Kapushesky, P Lilja, G Mukherjee, A Oezcimen, T Rayner, P Rocca-Serra, A Sharma, S Sansone, A Brazma
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ArrayExpress--a public repository for microarray gene expression data at the EBI

H Parkinson et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

ArrayExpress is a public repository for microarray data that supports the MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) requirements and stores well-annotated raw and normalized data. As of November 2004, ArrayExpress contains data from approximately 12,000 hybridizations covering 35 species. Data can be submitted online or directly from local databases or LIMS in a standard format, and password-protected access to prepublication data is provided for reviewers and authors. The data can be retrieved by accession number or queried by various parameters such as species, author and array platform. A facility to query experiments by gene and sample properties is provided for a growing subset of curated data that is loaded in to the ArrayExpress data warehouse. Data can be visualized and analysed using Expression Profiler, the integrated data analysis tool. ArrayExpress is available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress.

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Figure 1
(a) The number of hybridizations from October 2003 to September 2004. (b) The content of the database is shown broken down by species.
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Figure 2
(a) The ArrayExpress architecture and database side activities are shown. (b). The functionality experienced by the user is shown.
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