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The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center´s UCLA Microarray Core Website
was created as a
central resource at UCLA for microarray hybridization and subsequent data management.
Prospective oligonucleotide microarray (Affymetrix) users access core facilities through
an Internet website. Information regarding descriptions of new experiments is solicited
by an online questionnaire that is context sensitive - user responses prompt subsequent
queries. The questionnaires are conditionally driven in that how users answer the initial
queries dictates what further questions are prompted. The use of controlled vocabularies
allows for comprehensive searches of experimental descriptions and increases the chances
that users will be able to find their data long after the experiments have been performed.
At the end of the experiment description survey, users are given unique ID numbers and labels
to place on their sample tubes that are then taken to the microarray core lab. The experiment
description information is immediately available to the technicians. Custom software tracks
the processing of samples and calculates appropriate fees at each step of service. Both
experimental descriptions and micro array expression data are centrally stored in an Oracle
relational database administered by CTRL.
Modules:
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http://microarray.genetics.ucla.edu/
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