Earlier this month, caBIG® released new upgrades to caArray, the caBIG®-powered microarray data management system. The open-source, web-accessible tool facilitates the annotation and management of array data, and enables data exchange between local installations of the tool across the caBIG® grid infrastructure, caGrid. The tool also facilitates the integration of array data with diverse data types, including clinical, imaging, tissue, and functional genomics data-allowing researchers to ask more complex questions and yield richer knowledge from their data.
The new version of caArray is intended to help investigators run faster, more powerful searches and provides significant enhancements, including:
- Ability to search for samples and sources by keyword
- Ability to export experiment annotations in MAGE-TAB format
- Ability to create bulk-update experiment annotations in MAGE-TAB import
- Support for GEO and ScanArray data formats
- Improved permissions-based workflows
caArray is built on a common set of Open Source technologies to allow easy installation and maintenance, and is interoperable with other caBIG® tools and technologies. Users may install the tool locally, or access the NCI instance of caArray online at https://array.nci.nih.gov. A Java-based Application Programming Interface (API) and a caGrid compatible Grid Service are provided for programmatic access to data. Additional information about caArray, including user and technical documentation, can be found online by visiting https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/caArray.
Additional Resources:To see caArray in action at The Jackson Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Washington University visit http://cabig.cancer.gov/resources/newsletter/issueX/.
caArray on the caBIG® Community Website: https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/caArray
Molecular Analysis Tools Knowledge Center:
https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Molecular/KC/index.php/Main_Page
