Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X ConferenceJanuary 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Workshop: Controlled Vocabulary/Ontology
The MGED group is an open discussion group initially established at the Microarray Gene Expression Database meeting MGED 1 (November, 1999, Cambridge, UK). The goal of the group is to facilitate the adoption of standards for DNA-array experiment annotation and data representation, as well as the introduction of standard experimental controls and data normalisation methods. The underlying goal is to facilitate the establishing of gene expression data repositories, comparability of gene expression data from different sources and interoperability of different gene expression databases and data analysis software. Since 1999 the group has had three general meetings and the fourth one is planned for February 2002 in Boston, USA. In between the meetings most of the work is done within the five workinggroups (see below) that were established at the first meeting. For further information, consult the group's WWW site at http://www.mged.org or Alvis Brazma at EBI.