Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society (MGED)

MGED is an organization developing data exchange standards for data generated using the microarray and other functional genomics technologies.

Description

The Microarray and Gene Expression Data(MGED)Society is an international organization of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to facilitate the sharing of data generated using the microarray and other functional genomics technologies for a variety of applications including expression profiling. The scope of MGED includes data generated using any technology when applied to genome-scale studies of gene expression, binding, modification and other related applications.

The focus is on establishing standards for data quality, management, annotation and exchange; facilitating the creation of tools that leverage these standards; working with other standards organizations and promoting the sharing of high quality, well annotated data within the life sciences and biomedical communities.

URLs:

http://www.mged.org

Type

"Defined MGED Standards":

  • Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment, MIAME - a community standard for microarray data
  • MicroArray and Gene Expression - MAGE - a standard for the representation of microarray expression data
    • Microarray Gene Expression -simple tab-delimited, spreadsheet-based format, MAGE-TAB
    • Microarray Gene Expression - Markup Language, MAGE-ML - an XML-based markup language that is derived from the MAGE object model
    • Microarray Gene Expression - Object Model, MAGE-OM
  • Microarray and Gene Expression Ontology, MGED Ontology
  • Minimum Information Specification For In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiements - MISFISHIE

Stage of Maturity

  • Emerging/Existing
  • "MIAME is a developing standard", according to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Microarray Group's info page.

Producer

  • Microarray and Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society
  • Object Management Group (OMG )

Maintainer

Organization maintained - Microarray and Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society

Users

Association use - adopted by a collaborative group of organizations

  • The public repositories ArrayExpress at the EBI (UK), GEO at NCBI (US) and CIBEX at DDBJ (Japan) are designed to accept, hold and distribute MIAME compliant microarray data.
  • These journals require MIAME compliant data as a condition for publishing microarray based papers.

Support

 

Comments

  • Article about MISFISHIE development - 06/06
  • Next MGED meeting will be September 1-5, 2008 in Trentino, Italy
  • MIBBI - Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations maintains a registry, The Portal, of minimum information reporting guidelines for various domains in the life sciences.

Examples

XML examples from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) can be downloaded here.

Tools

Posted July 23rd, 2008 by agale
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