1. Introduction
Comparison of WebArray And WebArrayDB
Registered users: 10 LOGIN times: 4 Software download: 26 Data operating/analysis requests: 0 Arrays: 0 Platforms: 0 Probes: 0
A user needs to register to obtain a user ID before using this program. A web browser with JavaScript and cookie support is also required. To upload big files, JMaster's "JumpLoader" might be helpful. As a Java applet, JumpLoader requires the browser's support for Java.WebArray WebArrayDB data file upload yes yes data file storage in database no yes data file search by keywords no yes MIAME compliance no yes microarray analysis: data normalization yes yes comparisons between identical platforms yes yes comparisons between different platforms no yes supported data Affymetrix CEL files & two-color data data of any number of channels(colors) statistical algorithms t-test (implemented in LIMMA) t-test, SAM, ANOVA, non-parametric analysis parallel computation no yes
As our main web browser used for testing/debugging, Mozilla Firefox is strongly recommended for users to explore WebArray/WebArrayDB. We also tested the program with Opera, Flock, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), and Google Chrome.
A brief tutorial vedio will should you how to upload files, deposit data into the database, browse or search data in the database, and analyze data across different microarray platforms. Click the button to watch it.
@Article{WEBARRAY, author = {XiaoQin Xia and Michael McClelland and Yipeng Wang}, title = {WebArray: an online platform for microarray data analysis}, journal = {BMC Bioinformatics}, volume = {6}, year = {2005}, pages = {306}, url = {http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/306} }
@article{YipengWang08012009, author = {Wang, Yipeng and McClelland, Michael and Xia, Xiao-Qin}, title = {{Analyzing Microarray Data Using WebArray}}, journal = {Cold Spring Harbor Protocols}, volume = {2009}, number = {8}, pages = {pdb.prot5260-}, doi = {10.1101/pdb.prot5260}, year = {2009}, URL = {http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/cgi/content/abstract/2009/8/pdb.prot5260} }
@ARTICLE{Xia2009, author = {Xiao-Qin Xia and Michael McClelland and Steffen Porwollik and Wenzhi Song and Xianling Cong and Yipeng Wang}, title = {WebArrayDB: cross-platform microarray data analysis and public data repository.}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, year = {2009}, volume = {25}, pages = {2425--2429}, number = {18}, month = {Sep}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btp430}, institution = {Vaccine Research Institute San Diego, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. xqxia70@gmail.com}, keywords = {Computational Biology, methods; Information Storage and Retrieval, methods; Internet; Microarray Analysis, methods; Software; Statistics as Topic; User-Computer Interface}, language = {eng}, medline-pst = {ppublish}, owner = {xxia}, pii = {btp430}, pmid = {19602526}, timestamp = {2010.07.13}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp430} }
3. Program Download
WebArray is under GNU GPL, you may download the WebArray source codes following the links below. WebArray is under maintaining actively and might be modified/upgraded frequently. This is revealed by the software's packing date since we intend to not change the version number too often. Please read the "README" file especially when you are upgrading from a old distribution.
Tutorials, data for demo, and README
WebArray-1.4 (with WebArrayDB): webarray-1.4.tar.gz (packed on 2022-08-30 12:47)
WebArray-1.3 (with WebArrayDB): webarray-1.3.tar.gz (packed on 2010-10-02 06:52)
WebArray-1.1: webarray-1.1.tar.gz and README (packed on 2008-06-18 03:08)
2008/3/17 | WebArrayDB (in BETA testing) - a cross-platform database system and analysis platform was integrated in. Any feedback is highly appreciated. |
2007/08/18 | Microarray databases (WebArrayDB) were designed and are on testing. |
2006/10/19 | R was upgraded to version 2.4.0. Accordingly Bioconductor was upgraded to version 1.9. More Affymetrix GeneChip types are supported. |
2006/10/19 | The interface between python and R language was switch from Rpy to pipe offered by python. This permits R to run faster. |
2006/02/03 | Gal file is no longer necessary for those data files with gene & grid information. |
2006/02/03 | Source codes are available for downloading. |
5. Contacts
For questions, please contact with Xiao-Qin Xia ( w e b a r r a y d b @ g m a i l . c o m