Hi, Did you take a look at MAGE object model http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MAGE/mage.html? That should take you a far ways down the path... See www.mged.org for more information. Good luck, -mat > -----Original Message----- > From: biodevelopers-admin at bioinformatics.org > [mailto:biodevelopers-admin at bioinformatics.org]On Behalf Of kaustubh > shinde > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:46 AM > To: biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > Subject: [Biodevelopers] Regarding microarray database development > > > Hi, > I am computer science masters graduate and new to the field of > bioinformatics. My objective is to set up a system that will download > microarray data from public databases like NCBI, EBI etc > which in turn I > want to use for data mining. I would like to develop a > relational database > in mysql on linux. > > I have spent last 2-3 weeks reading about the NCBI toolkit, > Arrayexpress, > and Miamexpress tools and also about Biojava. > While NCBI toolkit is specific to the NCBI, Arrayexpress and > Miamexpress are > data submission tools and would not allow me to download data > directly from > the servers. Biojava seems pretty useful but I am not sure if > and how I > could save the data in MAGE-ML format. > > Keeping the objective - to make a system to download and > analyse microarray > data from VARIOUS public databases - in mind, what steps > should I take? I > understand that this question might sound utterly stupid to > you. But I hope > you understand the difficulties of a computer guy having very little > background in biology or bioinformatics. Having said that, I > have done quite > a lot of reading on biology, microarrays and DNA, chromosomes related > matter. > > If you could show me the right direction that will be a great > help. Right > now I am lost and don't know how exactly I should proceed. > > Thanks for you time. I am hoping for a positive reply. > Thank you, > Kaustubh > > _________________________________________________________________ > Contact brides & grooms FREE! > http://www.shaadi.com/ptnr.php?ptnr=hmltag > Only on www.shaadi.com. Register now! > > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers >