Microarray meta-analysis database (M2DB): A uniformly pre-processed, quality controlled, and manually curated human clinical microarray database

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Wei Chung ^a   Tsai, Min Lung ^b   Chang, Cheng Wei ^a   Huang, Ching Lung ^a   Chen, Chaang Ray ^a   Shu, Wun Yi ^a   Lee, Yun Shien ^c,d   Wang, Tzu Hao ^d   Hong, Ji Hong ^d,e   Li, Chia Yang ^a   Hsu, Ian C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFYMETRIX GENECHIP; CLINICAL INFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION MICROARRAY; INTERACTIVE RETRIEVAL; MICRO-ARRAY DATABASE; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; PRE-PROCESSED DATA; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; QUERY PROCESSING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERNET; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 77955287981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-421     Document Type: Article

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