Hi, In principle I would answer 'yes' to your three questions. You can use the annotation system to add keywords to items, and the annotation values can be used in filtering items. You can basically upload any data values to your RawBioassays, i.e., you could upload transformed/ normalized data. You can use annotation import plugins to batch annotate multiple items using flat-files.
There are (of course) limitations. Using the web interface you can filter on annotation values for one item-type at the time, e.g., in the sample table you can filter sample items by annotations on sample items but you cannot filter sample items based on annotation values on other item types. When annotations are inherited down to rawbioassays and used as experimental factor in an experiment you can perform filters (within the experiment). You could annotate rawbioassays directly and then values could be used in filtering the rawbioassay table (outside of experiments). //Johan On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Ben May wrote: > Greetings all! > > I have been tasked with creating a database for one of our labs > here that basically collects metadata about various array data sets > and makes them searchable (eg: return to me a list of files where > all people have this particular marker so that I can download them). > I found BASE2 as an option, and have successfully deployed BASE2 to > a web server here. > > I have some questions: > > - Is it possible to search keyworks? If so, can I do so across > multiple data sets or only within one at a time? > - Can I upload data that has already been transformed/ > normalized, or only the raw? > - Is it possible to create a flat-file template containing > metadata about an experiment and then load that (rather than > painstakingly adding keywords and attributes one at a time)? > > Just for perspective - my background is in computer science. I > have never worked in a lab and had never heard of Affymetrix until I > was assigned this project. My specialty is databases and web > programming - I am not tremendously familiar with the actual > underlying science here. > > Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!! > > -- > > > Benjamin May > Sr. Research Analyst > +(212) 851-4772 > ma...@columbia.edu > > > <ATT00001..txt><ATT00002..txt> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to basedb-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
