The Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) stores raw
and normalized data from microarray experiments,
and provides web interfaces for researchers to
retrieve, analyze and visualize their data. The two
immediate goals for SMD are to serve as a storage
site for microarray data from ongoing research at
Stanford University, and to facilitate the public
dissemination of that data once published, or released by the researcher. Of paramount importance is the connection of microarray data with the biological data that pertains to the DNA deposited on the microarray (genes, clones etc.). SMD makes use of many public resources to connect expression information to the relevant biology, including SGD [Ball,C.A., Dolinski,K., Dwight,S.S., Harris,M.A., lssel-Tarver,L., Kasarskis,A., Scafe,C.R., Sherlock,G., Binkley,G.,
Jin,H. et al. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 28, 77-80],
YPD and WormPD [Costanzo,M.C, Hogan,J.D.,
Cusick,M.E., Davis,B.P., Fancher,A.M., Hodges,P.E.,
Kondu,P., Lengieza,C, Lew-Smith,J.E., Lingner,C. et
al. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 28, 73-76], Unigene
[Wheeler,D.L., Chappey,C, Lash,A.E., Leipe,D.D.,
Madden,T.L., Schuier,G.D., Tatusova,T.A. and
Rapp,B.A. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 28,10-14], dbEST [Boguski,M.S., Lowe,T.M. and Tolstoshev,C.M. (1993) Nature Genet, 4, 332-333] and SWISS-PROT [Bairoch,A. and Apweiler,R. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 28, 45-48] and can be accessed at http:// genome- www.stanford.edu/microarray. |