maxdLoad2 and maxdBrowse: Standards-compliant tools for microarray experimental annotation, data management and dissemination

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Hancock, David ^a   Wilson, Michael ^a   Velarde, Giles ^a   Morrison, Norman ^a   Hayes, Andrew ^a   Hulme, Helen ^a   Wood, A Joseph ^b   Nashar, Karim ^a   Kell, Douglas B ^a   Brass, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; CONFIGURATION FILES; MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE INTERFACES; RELATIONAL DATABASE; RELATIONAL DATABASE SCHEMATA; STRUCTURED DOCUMENT; TABULAR REPRESENTATIONS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METADATA; STANDARDS; TOOLS; WEB SERVICES;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 27744469077     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-264     Document Type: Article

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