MicroArray and Gene Expression - MAGE
This is the homepage for the MAGE group. The group aims to provide a standard for the representation of microarray expression data that would facilitate the exchange of microarray information between different data systems.
MAGE-TAB
MAGE-TAB is the currently recommended best practice approach. More details available from:
http://www.mged.org/mage-tab/
Other Detailed Information
Through the OMG (Object Management Group) the establishment of a data exchange model (MAGE-OM: Microarray Gene Expression - Object Model) and data exchange format (MAGE-ML: Microarray Gene Expression - Markup Language) for microarray expression experiments has been done. MAGE-OM has been modelled using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and MAGE-ML has been implemented using XML (eXtensible Markup Language). MAGEstk (or MAGE Software Toolkit) is a collection of packages that act as converters between MAGE-OM and MAGE-ML under various programming platforms.
There are guidelines on how to encode MIAME in MAGE-ML.
Please subscribe to the MAGE mailing lists from here.
MAGE Links:
- Introduction
- Websites associated with MAGE
- MAGE-OM
- MAGE-ML
- MAGEstk
- Presentations associated with MAGE
- MAGEv2
- MAGE-TAB
- MIAME to MAGE (located under the MIAME workgroup)
Note: MAML (Microarray Markup Language) is no longer supported by MGED and has been replaced by MAGE-ML.
