• DOI:10.1038/ng1201-365
• Corpus ID: 6994467

Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)—toward standards for microarray data

@article{Brazma2001MinimumIA,
  title={Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)—toward standards for microarray data},
  author={Alvis Brazma and Pascal Hingamp and John Quackenbush and Gavin Sherlock and Paul T. Spellman and Christian J. Stoeckert and John Aach and Wilhelm Dr Ansorge and Catherine A. Ball and Helen C. Causton and Terry Gaasterland and Patrick Glenisson and Frank C. P. Holstege and Irene F. Kim and Victor M. Markowitz and John C. Matese and Helen E. Parkinson and A Robinson and Ugis Sarkans and Steffen Schulze-Kremer and Jason E. Stewart and Ronald C. Taylor and Jaak Vilo and Martin Vingron},
  journal={Nature Genetics},
  year={2001},
  volume={29},
  pages={365-371}
}

• A. Brazma, P. Hingamp, +21 authors M. Vingron
• Published 1 December 2001
• Biology
• Nature Genetics

Microarray analysis has become a widely used tool for the generation of gene expression data on a genomic scale. Although many significant results have been derived from microarray studies, one limitation has been the lack of standards for presenting and exchanging such data. Here we present a proposal, the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME), that describes the minimum information required to ensure that microarray data can be easily interpreted and that results derived from its analysis can be independently verified. The ultimate goal of this work is to establish a standard for recording and reporting microarray-based gene expression data, which will in turn facilitate the establishment of databases and public repositories and enable the development of data analysis tools. With respect to MIAME, we concentrate on defining the content and structure of the necessary information rather than the technical format for capturing it.