Research work · 2012
NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update
Tanya Barrett, Stephen E. Wilhite, Pierre Ledoux
Nucleic Acids Research
Abstract
The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) is an international public repository for high-throughput microarray and next-generation sequence functional genomic data sets submitted by the research community. The resource supports archiving of raw data, processed data and metadata which are indexed, cross-linked and searchable. All data are freely available for download in a variety of formats. GEO also provides several web-based tools and strategies to assist users to query, analyse and visualize data. This article reports current status and recent database developments, including the release of GEO2R, an R-based web application that helps users analyse GEO data.
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1193