The Longhorn Array Database (LAD): An Open-Source, MIAME compliant implementation of the Stanford Microarray Database (SMD)

Patrick J Killion¹ , Gavin Sherlock² and Vishwanath R Iyer¹

¹Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0159, USA

²Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2003, 4:32doi:10.1186/1471-2105-4-32


Published:	20 August 2003

Abstract

Background

The power of microarray analysis can be realized only if data is systematically archived and linked to biological annotations as well as analysis algorithms.

Description

The Longhorn Array Database (LAD) is a MIAME compliant microarray database that operates on PostgreSQL and Linux. It is a fully open source version of the Stanford Microarray Database (SMD), one of the largest microarray databases. LAD is available at http://www.longhornarraydatabase.org webcite

Conclusions

Our development of LAD provides a simple, free, open, reliable and proven solution for storage and analysis of two-color microarray data.