BMC Bioinformatics

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MIMAS: an innovative tool for network-based high density oligonucleotide microarray data management and annotation

Leandro Hermida1, Olivier Schaad2, Philippe Demougin1, Patrick Descombes2 and Michael Primig1*

Author Affiliations

1 Biozentrum and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Klingelbergstrasse 50-70 CH-4056 Basel Switzerland

2 Genomics Platform, NCCR Frontiers in Genetics, Geneva University Medical Center 1, Rue Michel-Servet CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland

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BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:190 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-190

Published: 5 April 2006

Additional files

Additional File 1:

The MIMAS database model. Database areas are color-coded. Yellow tables represent Controlled Vocabulary & Array Library, blue tables Data Repository, red tables User/Group Security & Management, green tables Experiment Upload/Working, and purple tables Web Management. Table relationships are indicated by appropriate symbols in standard ERD format.

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Additional File 2:

The MIMAS Web GUI. Panel A shows the Experiment Design Annotation Page and panel B displays the Extensible Controlled Vocabulary System. Examples of descriptors provided by the system or added by the user are shown.

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Additional File 3:

The MIMAS Web GUI – Repository Search Page. An example of possible search options is shown.

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