Microarray databases fulfill different functions and can be classified as follows:
- those that provide public access to database software for local installation
- those for public data deposition
- those available for public queries
The table below presents a comparison of microarray databases. The information was obtained, in large part, from:
Gardiner-Garden, M. and Littlejohn, T.G. (2001), "A comparison of microarray databases", Briefings in Bioinformatics, Vol.2, No.2,
pp. 143-158.
| Database | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AMAD | Stanford University/University of California at Berkeley, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) | local installation |
| ArrayExpress | European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) | public data deposition and public queries (coming soon) |
| BASE | Lund University | local installation (public queries coming soon) |
| ChipDB | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT Centre for Genome Research | public queries |
| Dragon | Johns Hopkins University | public queries |
| ExpressDB | Harvard University | public queries of E. coli and yeast data |
| Expression Connection | Stanford University/Saccharomyces Genome Database | public queries of yeast data |
| GeneDirector | BioDiscovery | local installation |
| GeneX | NCGR | local installation, public data deposition, and public queries of E. coli and yeast data |
| GEO | National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) | public data deposition and public queries |
| GXD | The Jackson Laboratory | public data deposition and public queries of mouse data (coming soon) |
| Longhorn | UT Austin | local installation |
| mAdb | National Cancer Institute (NCI) | local installation |
| maxdSQL | The University of Manchester | local installation |
| NOMAD | UCSF | local installation |
| RAD | University of Pennsylvania | public queries |
| SMD | Stanford University | local installation and public queries |
| yMGV | Ecole Normale Superieure | public queries of yeast data |