Figure 1.

Architecture of SBEAMS-Microarray. SBEAMS-Microarray is built using the SBEAMS Core framework, which provides tools to build a user interface with authentication and handles interactions with the back-end RDBMS. Affymetrix chip data are produced using vendor-provided equipment and software and placed in a raw file repository, where they are automatically imported by the SBEAMS-Microarray repository scanning component. Logged-in users may then annotate their data, run it through an interactive pipeline processing system, query the results, and export the data to various formats and visualization/analysis software packages.