NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets--update

  • Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D991-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1193.
Tanya Barrett  1 ,  Stephen E Wilhite ,  Pierre Ledoux ,  Carlos Evangelista ,  Irene F Kim ,  Maxim Tomashevsky ,  Kimberly A Marshall ,  Katherine H Phillippy ,  Patti M Sherman ,  Michelle Holko ,  Andrey Yefanov ,  Hyeseung Lee ,  Naigong Zhang ,  Cynthia L Robertson ,  Nadezhda Serova ,  Sean Davis ,  Alexandra Soboleva
Affiliations
  • 1. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine and Molecular Genetics Section, Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. [email protected]
PMID: 23193258 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1193
Abstract

The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) is an international public repository for high-throughput microarray and next-generation sequence functional genomic data sets submitted by the research community. The resource supports archiving of raw data, processed data and metadata which are indexed, cross-linked and searchable. All data are freely available for download in a variety of formats. GEO also provides several web-based tools and strategies to assist users to query, analyse and visualize data. This article reports current status and recent database developments, including the release of GEO2R, an R-based web application that helps users analyse GEO data.