BALKAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS, vol.14, no.2, pp.49-63, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
The number of microarray and other high-throughput experiments on primary repositories keeps increasing as do the size and complexity of the results in response to biomedical investigations. Initiatives have been started on standardization of content, object model, exchange format and ontology. However, there are backlogs and inability to exchange data between microarray repositories, which indicate that there is a great need for a standard format and data management.