Received 7 April 2008; Accepted 28 May 2008 | Tomas Hruz, Oliver Laule, Gabor Szabo, Frans Wessendorp, Stefan Bleuler, Lukas Oertle, Peter Widmayer, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Philip Zimmermann
Genevestigator V3 is an advanced web-based software tool designed for the meta-analysis of transcriptomes, offering powerful tools to explore gene expression across various biological contexts. The system has been significantly enhanced compared to its predecessors, addressing limitations in scaling, multi-organism data storage, and computational efficiency. Key improvements include:
1. **Data Curation and Quality Control**: Over 20,000 Affymetrix expression microarrays from human, mouse, rat, Arabidopsis, and barley have been curated and quality-controlled.
2. **Pathway Data**: Pathway reaction networks for mouse and Arabidopsis have been manually curated.
3. **Client/Server Architecture**: A new architecture distributes computationally intensive tasks to the client side, improving scalability and user experience.
4. **Database Model**: A highly scalable and organism-independent database model has been developed.
5. **Enhanced Analysis Tools**: Significant improvements and new tools for biomarker identification, clustering, biclustering, and pathway analysis have been implemented.
6. **User-Friendly Interface**: The system includes workspace storage, figure export, and a community platform for sharing results.
Genevestigator V3 facilitates discovery research and hypothesis validation by providing a comprehensive reference expression database and user-friendly tools. It supports a wide range of research interests, including plant and animal genomics, toxicogenomics, biomarker discovery, and clinical research. The tool is accessible at http://www.genevestigator.ethz.ch.Genevestigator V3 is an advanced web-based software tool designed for the meta-analysis of transcriptomes, offering powerful tools to explore gene expression across various biological contexts. The system has been significantly enhanced compared to its predecessors, addressing limitations in scaling, multi-organism data storage, and computational efficiency. Key improvements include:
1. **Data Curation and Quality Control**: Over 20,000 Affymetrix expression microarrays from human, mouse, rat, Arabidopsis, and barley have been curated and quality-controlled.
2. **Pathway Data**: Pathway reaction networks for mouse and Arabidopsis have been manually curated.
3. **Client/Server Architecture**: A new architecture distributes computationally intensive tasks to the client side, improving scalability and user experience.
4. **Database Model**: A highly scalable and organism-independent database model has been developed.
5. **Enhanced Analysis Tools**: Significant improvements and new tools for biomarker identification, clustering, biclustering, and pathway analysis have been implemented.
6. **User-Friendly Interface**: The system includes workspace storage, figure export, and a community platform for sharing results.
Genevestigator V3 facilitates discovery research and hypothesis validation by providing a comprehensive reference expression database and user-friendly tools. It supports a wide range of research interests, including plant and animal genomics, toxicogenomics, biomarker discovery, and clinical research. The tool is accessible at http://www.genevestigator.ethz.ch.