CROPPER: a metagene creator resource for cross-platform and cross-species compendium studies

Background: Current genomic research methods provide researchers with enormous amounts of data. Combining data from different high-throughput research technologies commonly available in biological databases can lead to novel findings and increase research efficiency. However, combining data from different heterogeneous sources is often a very arduous task. These sources can be different microarray technology platforms, genomic databases, or experiments performed on various species. Our aim was to develop a software program that could facilitate the combining of data from heterogeneous sources, and thus allow researchers to perform genomic crossplatform/cross-species studies and to use existing experimental data for compendium studies. Results: We have developed a web-based software resource, called CROPPER that uses the latest genomic information concerning different data identifiers and orthologous genes from the Ensembl database. CROPPER can be used to combine genomic data from diff...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Jussi Paananen, Markus Storvik, Garry Wong
• Keywords: BMCBI 2006, Genomic, Heterogeneous Sources, Web-based Software Resource