DESPRAD

Funded by European Community Contract No. QLRI-CT-2001-00015 for "TEMBLOR" under the specific RTD programme "Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources" (1998-2002).

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TEMBLOR is a new-generation bioinformatics project, centred on an integrated layer for the exploitation of genomic and proteomic data (Integr8) by drawing on databases maintained at major bioinformatics centres in Europe, and by creating new important resources for protein-protein interaction (IntAct), structural (PDBe) and microarray (DESPRAD) data.

The DESPRAD (Development and Establishment of Standards and Prototype Repository for DNA-Array Data) subproject is aimed at developing ArrayExpress, a public archive for microarray data, and the standards and ontologies needed to describe, exchange and store microarray data (experiments, protocols and array designs). Also, software tools are being developed for querying the database, and for curation and submission of data. Analysis tools, stand-alone or integrated with the database, are also goals for this project.

Partners

Click on the below partner links below for more information on them.

• EBI Functional Genomics Team
• University of Cambridge
• Protein Design Group, CNB-CSIC
• RZPD
• Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy
• Genomics Lab, UMC Utrecht
• EMBL Heidelberg
• University of Bergen

Projects and progress

A mid-term update (01/01/2002-31/07/2003) on the TEMBLOR-DESPRAD project is available from our FTP site.