From ArrayExpress to BioStudies

Abstract ArrayExpress (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress) is an archive of functional genomics data at EMBL-EBI, established in 2002, initially as an archive for publication-related microarray data and was later extended to accept sequencing-based data. Over the last decade an increasing share of b...

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Published in:Nucleic acids research Vol. 49; no. D1; pp. D1502 - D1506
Main Authors: Sarkans, Ugis, Füllgrabe, Anja, Ali, Ahmed, Athar, Awais, Behrangi, Ehsan, Diaz, Nestor, Fexova, Silvie, George, Nancy, Iqbal, Haider, Kurri, Sandeep, Munoz, Jhoan, Rada, Juan, Papatheodorou, Irene, Brazma, Alvis
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Oxford University Press 08.01.2021
Subjects:
Animals
Cell Line
Database Issue
Databases, Genetic
DNA Methylation
Epigenesis, Genetic
Gene Expression Profiling
Genomics - methods
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Internet
Metadata
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis - statistics & numerical data
Organ Specificity
Plants - genetics
Single-Cell Analysis
Software
ISSN:0305-1048, 1362-4962, 1362-4962
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Summary:Abstract ArrayExpress (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress) is an archive of functional genomics data at EMBL-EBI, established in 2002, initially as an archive for publication-related microarray data and was later extended to accept sequencing-based data. Over the last decade an increasing share of biological experiments involve multiple technologies assaying different biological modalities, such as epigenetics, and RNA and protein expression, and thus the BioStudies database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies) was established to deal with such multimodal data. Its central concept is a study, which typically is associated with a publication. BioStudies stores metadata describing the study, provides links to the relevant databases, such as European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), as well as hosts the types of data for which specialized databases do not exist. With BioStudies now fully functional, we are able to further harmonize the archival data infrastructure at EMBL-EBI, and ArrayExpress is being migrated to BioStudies. In future, all functional genomics data will be archived at BioStudies. The process will be seamless for the users, who will continue to submit data using the online tool Annotare and will be able to query and download data largely in the same manner as before. Nevertheless, some technical aspects, particularly programmatic access, will change. This update guides the users through these changes.
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ISSN:0305-1048
1362-4962
1362-4962
DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa1062