Microarray Standards

Standards for microarray data.

ONE OF THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF scientific publication in peer-reviewed journals has been the requirement that the authors make available the data and materials necessary for a reader to reproduce the experiment or analysis and to determine whether the data support the authors’ conclusions. In many instances, such as DNA sequence or protein structure data, this has evolved into the requirem...

Microarray Data Standards: An Open Letter

A fundamental principle guiding the publication of scientific results is that the data supporting any scholarly work must be made fully available to the research community in a form that allows the basic conclusions to be evaluated independently. In the context of molecular biology, this has typically meant that authors of papers describing a newly sequenced genome, gene, or protein must deposi...

On the MIAME Standards and Central Repositories of Microarray Data

CFG has been approached, along with other journals publishing in the area of genomics, by the Microarray Gene Expression Database (MGED) society. We have been urged to use its recommendations when deciding whether to accept a paper for publication. As frequent readers of this journal will know, CFG supports the development and usage of standards and ontologies in genomics, as evidenced in this ...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

The Second International Meeting on Microarray Data Standards, Annotations, Ontologies and Databases

In November 1999, the ®rst international meeting on Microarray Gene Expression Databases (MGED) was held at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton. The goal of this meeting was to create a framework for developing standards for storing and communicating microarray-based gene expression data. To achieve this goal, the participants of the meeting established ®ve working groups, each of ...