This article is part of the supplement: Italian Society of Bioinformatics (BITS): Annual Meeting 2011

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BEAT: Bioinformatics Exon Array Tool to store, analyze and visualize Affymetrix GeneChip Human Exon Array data from disease experiments

Arianna Consiglio1, Massimo Carella2, Giorgio De Caro1, Gianfranco Delle Foglie1, Candida Giovannelli3, Giorgio Grillo1, Massimo Ianigro3, Flavio Licciulli1, Orazio Palumbo2, Ada Piepoli4, Elena Ranieri5 and Sabino Liuni1*

1 Institute for Biomedical Technologies of Bari - ITB, National Research Council, Bari, 70126, Italy

2 Medical Genetics Unit, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza IRCCS, San Giovanni Rotondo Foggia, 71013, Italy

3 Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation - ISSIA, National Research Council, Bari, 70126, Italy

4 Department and Laboratory of Gastroenterology Unit, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza IRCCS, San Giovanni Rotondo Foggia, 71013, Italy

5 Department of Biomedical Science, University of Foggia, Foggia, 71122, Italy

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BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13(Suppl 4):S21 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-S4-S21

Published: 28 March 2012

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PDF file containing supplementary documentation about the data warehouse. In particular, we report a more detailed description of the repository and data marts, and four tables with a detailed description of fact tables, hierarchies and dimensional tables.

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