Contents

• Contents
• 1. General Considerations concerning Data Storage
  • 1.1 Storing transcription intensities
    • 1.1.1 What to store
    • 1.1.2 How to store it
  • 1.2 Storing gene annotations
    • 1.2.1 What to store
    • 1.2.2 How to store it
  • 1.3 Storing experimental annotations
    • 1.3.1 What to store
    • 1.3.2 How to store it
• 2. Realization concepts
  • 2.1 Safety considerations
    • 2.1.1 Global accidents
    • 2.1.2 Private errors
    • 2.1.3 Unauthorized access
  • 2.2 Performance considerations
    • 2.2.1 Minimizing query space
    • 2.2.2 Separate or block-wise storage
  • 2.3 Flexibility considerations
  • 2.4 Considerations related with Analysis
• 3. Implementation
  • 3.1 Databases
  • 3.2 Microarray Families
    • 3.2.1 Gene annotations
    • 3.2.2 Administration of the comprised multiconditional experiments
  • 3.3 Multiconditional Experiments
    • 3.3.1 Experimental annotations constant within the multiconditional experiment
    • 3.3.2 Administration of the comprised condiditions
  • 3.4 Experimental Conditions
    • 3.4.1 Administration of the comprised hybridizations and measurements
    • 3.4.2 Experimental annotations dependent on the condition
  • 3.5 Hybridisations
    • 3.5.1 Hybridisation intensities
    • 3.5.2 Hybridisation intensities, `solidified'
    • 3.5.3 Measurement-dependent experimental annotations