Metadata management and semantics in microarray repositories.

ABSTRACT: The number of microarray and other high-throughput experiments on primary repositories keeps increasing as do the size and complexity of the results in response to biomedical investigations. Initiatives have been started on standardization of content, object model, exchange format and ontology. However, there are backlogs and inability to exchange data between microarray repositories, which indicate that there is a great need for a standard format and data management. We have introduced a metadata framework that includes a metadata card and semantic nets that make experimental results visible, understandable and usable. These are encoded in syntax encoding schemes and represented in RDF (Resource Description Frame-word), can be integrated with other metadata cards and semantic nets, and ca

SUBMITTER: Kocabas F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3776701 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature