A Microarray Information Database

The development of microarray technology has been phenomenal, during the past years, and it is becoming a daily tool in many genomics research laboratories. However, the multi-step and data-intensive nature of this technology has created an unprecedented computational challenge. In fact, the full power of microarrays technology can only be achieved if researchers are able to efficiently store, analyse and share their results. In this article we describe a flexible and extensible platform that can be used to gather the natural workflow of microarray experiments. It is an open-source web-based information system that also integrates a set of statistical and processing methods to analyse and visualize the data. By doing this integration in a single system, we hope to speed up the research and discovery processes.