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PLEXdb Pl ant Ex pression d ata b ase. www.plexdb.org. Ethalinda Cannon Iowa State University. January 15th, 2007. A brief history of PLEXdb. (2003 - 2005) BarleyBase.org Focus was on the Barley1 and ATH1 Affymetrix GeneChips (2005 - ) PLEXdb.org
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PLEXdb Plant Expression database www.plexdb.org Ethalinda Cannon Iowa State University January 15th, 2007
A brief history of PLEXdb (2003 - 2005) BarleyBase.org Focus was on the Barley1 and ATH1 Affymetrix GeneChips (2005 - ) PLEXdb.org Expanded to include all plant and plant pathogen Affymetrix GeneChips with plans to support long-oligo designs in the future. PLEXdb is still in development: not all tools developed for BarleyBase.org have been ported to PLEXdb.
PLEXdb objectives • provide annotation for all plant and plant pathogen microarrays available from Affymetrix • serve as a repository for plant microarray experiments, especially grains, legumes and grape • provide means to explore expression and sequence data
PLEXdb provides: • annotation for 15 microarrays, representing 12 organisms • analysis and visualization tools • experiment data submission, normalization, browsing, downloading - 43 public experiments and 2200 hybridizations now available in database • gene lists (not yet available)
PLEXdb tools • Get probe set consensus sequence • Blast against consensus sequences • Microarray Platform Translator (in initial testing and review phase) • Rice Genome Mapper
Why submit experiments to PLEXdb? • Journals and funding agencies require that data be made available. • Verify the completeness of your experiment information. • Serves as a safe repository for your data. • Provides means of exploring your data. • Increase the impact of your research (BB1 data has been downloaded 133 times).
Barley Express to PLEX Express • The danger of being an early adopter: things change • You never get things right the first time • Difficult to predict the future; size of large experiments greater than anticipated • The user is always right PLEX Express is in its initial testing and review phase
The New PLEX Express • Revised database design to better meet MIAME, MIAME/Plant, and SOFTtext requirements and to accommodate larger experiments. • Closer ties to current Plant Ontology terms. • Easier to use, although it requires in-depth information so submitting an experiment is still time-consuming. • Will submit experiments to GEO at the request of the submitter. • Improved, streamlined normalization process. • Relies on standard ftp for uploading data.
PLEX Express • Experiment background information. • Describe experiment treatment as one or more factors and levels (e.g. ?). • Give replicate counts for each treatment • Upload hybridization data files (for Affymetrix GeneChips CEL and EXP files are required). • Describe all plant samples. • Assign data files and samples to each hybridization.
1. Experiment description • Visibility (private, public, group consortium) • Experiment name • Experiment type(s) • Experiment description • Array design • Type of replicates (biological replicates, technical replicates) • Publication • Experimenter
4. Upload data files You will have received ftp instructions via e-mail by this point. Data files may be uploaded individually or in one or more standard compressed formats such as gzipped or zipped files.
5. Sample information Includes: • Short sample name • Sample image • Dates • Sample description • Germplasm information • Cell type or target cell type • Development stage • Growth information • Environmental conditions • Protocols • Provider information
After finalizing your experiment • You can no longer edit your experiment yourself. • You will be assigned an accession number. • If you have granted the curator access, your experiment data will be hand-checked for possible errors. • Your data will be normalized. • Your experiment data will be made available according to your request (private, visible to your research group, public).
Future plans • Update and expand array annotation • Gene lists • Continue porting BarleyBase utilities • Add support for long oligo microarray designs
Credits and Acknowledgements Principal investigator - Julie Dickerson Co-investigators - Roger Wise, Volker Brendel BarleyBase.org - Lishuang Shen Advice, consultation& blast data - Nick Lauter, Matt Moscou Programmers - Jianqiang Xin, Ajani Thomas, Yogesh Nadkarni, Xiaokang Pan Data curator - Sudhansu Dash Partner websites and databases: PlantGDB, Gramene, GrainGenes The PLEXdb project is funded by PLEXdb is hosted at the Iowa State University Virtual Reality Applications Center.