Methodology article
The tissue microarray data exchange specification: implementation by the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource
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* Corresponding author: Jules J Berman bermanj@mail.nih.gov
1 Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
2 Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
3 Department of Pathology, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, USA
4 Department of Pathology, New York Medical Center, New York, USA
5 Department of Pathology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA
6 Center for Pathology Informatics and Benedum Oncology Informatics Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:19 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-19
Published: 27 February 2004Additional files
Additional File 1:
Excel to XML converting script. Opener7.pl is a Perl script that converts an Excel file to XML-tagged data elements that can be easily inserted into an XML file. This script only works under Windows and requires an installed version of Excel. It is distributed as an open access plain-text file.
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Additional File 2:
CPCTR tissue microarray database file. Cpctrtma.xml is the XML representation of the CPCTR prostate cancer TMA. This file conforms to the TMA Data Exchange Specification and can be viewed as a formatted XML file on most web browsers. The file exceeds 700 KB in length.
Format: XML Size: 773KB Download file
Additional File 3:
TMA validating script. Validtma.pl is a validating Perl script distributed as a plain-text file. It parses through XML files and determines conformance to the TMA Data Exchange Specification [8]. This is an open access Perl script, and is identical to the Perl script distributed with the Specification.
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