Data, data everywhere Credit: JEREMY HASSEMAN The massive amount of microarray data collected so far has been generated on multiple platforms and is stored in a host of different formats, levels of detail and locations. This makes it difficult for any group to re-analyse or verify the data, or compare the results with their own. “It's apples to oranges,” says Steven Gullans of the department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Institutes of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
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