Not exact matches
The challenge is substantial — the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Gene Expression Omnibus repository (GEO) alone
contains 80,985 public datasets, spanning hundreds of tissue types in thousands of organisms — and the rapid growth in
data makes it difficult for journals or
data repositories to «police» whether datasets that should be made publicly available actually are.
Andrechek's federally funded study looked at mice
containing all subtypes and compared the makeup of the rodent tumors and the way the
genes acted, known as
gene expression, to human tumor
data.
For instance, the National Center for Biotechnology Information's public repository of
gene -
expression data, GEO, now
contains 392,000 microarray experiments.
It
contains data on the electrical properties of about 300 cortical neurons taken from 36 patients and 3D reconstructions of 100 of those cells, plus
gene expression data from 16,000 neurons from three other patients.
Expression data are derived from records
contained in the
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), and are first log2 transformed and normalized.
BGEM
contains a more extensive, growing in situ collection of developmental
gene expression data.