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OpenFlyData Integration of Drosophila gene expression image data Alistair Miles, Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne and David Shotton e-mail: firstname.lastname@zoo.ox.ac.uk Image Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Summary
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OpenFlyData Integration of Drosophila gene expression image data Alistair Miles, Jun Zhao, Graham Klyneand David Shotton e-mail: firstname.lastname@zoo.ox.ac.uk Image Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford • Summary • Bioinformatics databases are characterized by the heterogeneity of their user interfaces, content and data models, frustrating efforts to achieve cross-resource data integration. • Images of gene expression locations, obtained by mRNA in situ hybridization, are vital to our understanding of development. • OpenFlyData (http://www.openflydata.org) is an open source demonstration data web that uses lightweight Semantic Web technologies to integrates information from four Drosophila gene expression databases on the fly into a single Web browser window. Data sources BDGP (http://www.fruitfly.org/cgi-bin/ex/insitu.pl) and FlyTED (http://www.fly-ted.org/) are databases of gene expression images from Drosophila melanogaster embryos and adult testes, respectively. FlyAtlas (http://www.flyatlas.org/)holds quantitative data on mRNA expression levels obtained from Affimetrix DNA chips. FlyBase (http://flybase.org/) is the global database of Drosophila genetic information, providing name disambiguation and references. Despite their heterogeneity, they can all be integrated by OpenFlyData Figure 1: The BDGP Drosophilaembryo gene expression image database Figure 2: The FlyTED Drosophila testis gene expression image database Figure 3: The FlyAtlas database of quantitative Drosophila gene expression data Figure 4: FlyBase, the global database of Drosophila genetic information Data from these four sources integrated in a single OpenFlyData window • Funding acknowledgements • FlyTED: BBSRC Systems Biology Committee BB/C503903/1. • FlyData: BBSRC Tools and Resources Fund BB/E018068/1. • Defining Image Access (a data web requirements analysis project): JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme. • FlyWeb: a Data Web for Drosophila Research: JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee. • Collaborators