The Stanford Microarray Database

The Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments, and provides web interfaces for researchers to retr ieve, 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 St anford University, and to facilitate the public dissemination of that data once published, or released by the researcher. Of paramount importance is t he 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 bio logy, including SGD [Ball,C.A., Dolinski. K., Dwight,S.S., Harris,M.A., Iss el-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., H ogan,J.D., Cusick,M.E., Davis,B.P., Fancher,A.M., Hodges,P.E., Kondu,P., Le ngieza,C., Lew-Smith,J.E., tingner,C. ef al. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 28, 73-76], Unigene [Wheeler,D.L., Chappey,C., Lash,A.E., Leipe,D.D., Madden,T .L., Schuler,G.D., Tatusova,T.A. and Rapp,B.A. (2000) Nucleic Acids Res., 2 8, (0-14], dbEST [Boguski,A I.S., Lowe,T.M. and Tolstoshev,C.M. (1993) Natu re Genet., 4, 332-333] and SWISS-PROT [Bairoch,A. and Apweiler,R. (2000) Nu cleic Acids Res., 28, 45-48] and can be accessed at http:// genome-www.stan ford.edu/microarray.