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BACKGROUND: The Marine Genomics project is a functional genomics initiative developed to provide a pipeline for the curation of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and gene expression microarray data for marine organisms. It provides a unique clearing-house for marine specific EST and microarray data and is currently available at http://www.marinegenomics.org. DESCRIPTION: The Marine Genomics pipeline automates the processing, maintenance, storage and analysis of EST and microarray data for an increasing number of marine species. It currently contains 19 species databases (over 46,000 EST sequences) that are maintained by registered users from local and remote locations in Europe and South America in addition to the USA. A collection of analysis tools are implemented. These include a pipeline upload tool for EST FASTA file, sequence trace file and microarray data, an annotative text search, automated sequence trimming, sequence quality control (QA/QC) editing, sequence BLAST capabilities and a tool for interactive submission to GenBank. Another feature of this resource is the integration with a scientific computing analysis environment implemented by MATLAB. CONCLUSION: The conglomeration of multiple marine organisms with integrated analysis tools enables users to focus on the comprehensive descriptions of transcriptomic responses to typical marine stresses. This cross species data comparison and integration enables users to contain their research within a marine-oriented data management and analysis environment.
SUMMARY: AGML Central is a web-based open-source public infrastructure for dissemination of two-dimensional Gel Electrophoresis (2-DE) proteomics data in AGML format (Annotated Gel Markup Language). It includes a growing collection of converters from proprietary formats such as those produced by PDQUEST (BioRad), PHORETIX 2-D (Nonlinear Dynamics) and Melanie (GenBio SA). The resulting unifying AGML formatted entry, with or without the raw gel images, is optionally stored in a database for future reference. AGML Central was developed to provide a common platform for data dissemination and development of 2-DE data analysis tools. This resource responds to an increasing use of AGML for 2-DE public source data representation which requires automated tools for conversion from proprietary formats. Conversion and short-term storage is made publicly available, permanent storage requires prior registering. A JAVA applet visualizer was developed to visualize the AGML data with cross-reference links. In order to facilitate automated access a SOAP web service is also included in the AGML Central infrastructure. AVAILABILITY: http://bioinformatics.musc.edu/agmlcentral.