[Mged-mage] MAGE Jamboree Dec. 13-15 update

[Chris S. <sto...@pc...>]

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