From: Chris S. <sto...@pc...> - 2006-11-21 23:04:52
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Hi All, If you have not already done so, please let me know if you will be attending the MAGE Jamboree to be held at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioinformatics on Dec. 13-15. see https://www.cbil.upenn.edu/magewiki/index.php/PhillyMageWorkshop A couple updates: 1. We will have a short open session on "Demystifying MIAME -- Making your microarray data publishable and accessible" on December 13th, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon, John Morgan Building - Reunion Hall. Cathy Ball will explain the MIAME standard and the benefits it provides to both individual investigators and to the scientific community. She will also discuss recent debate on MIAME (see for example Nov. issue of Nature Biotechnology) and address some of the issues raised. Helen Parkinson will discuss MAGE-TAB, a new spreadsheet format to represent microarray experiments. MAGE-TAB has been developed to make it easier to collect and represent MIAME compliant experiments. She will also describe plans for its use at the ArrayExpress public repository. 2. MAGE-TAB will be finalized at the Jamboree. Software to create and load AMGE-TAB will be a major topic 3. MAGE Translator developed by the Stanford Microarray Database will be released at the Jamboree. The MAGE Translator will generate common formats from MAGE-ML. 4. Exploration of OWL parsers for use in MAGE. A parser for OWL 1.1 is available in Protege 4 using the WonderWeb API. Cheers, Chris Chris Stoeckert, Ph.D. Research Professor, Dept. of Genetics 1415 Blockley Hall, Center for Bioinformatics 423 Guardian Dr., University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 Ph: 215-573-4409 FAX: 215-573-3111 http://www.cbil.upenn.edu |