Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on September 3, 2004
Bioinformatics 2005 21(3):399-401; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti002
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Bioinformatics vol. 21 issue 3 © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved.
BarleyExpress: a web-based submission tool for enriched microarray database annotations
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-3060, USA
2 Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University Ames, IA, 50011-2274, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Summary: BarleyExpress is a web-based microarray experiment data submission tool for BarleyBase, a public data resource of Affymetrix GeneChip® data for plants. BarleyExpress uses the Plant Ontology vocabularies and enhances the MIAME guidelines to standardize the annotation of microarray gene expression experiments. In addition, BarleyExpress provides explicit support for factorial experiment design and template loading methods to ease the submission process for large experiments.
Availability: http://barleybase.org
Contact: julied{at}iastate.edu
Supplementary information: BarleyExpress Users Manual.