Utilization of QTL information and sharing of microarray data for microarray data analysis

Abstract

Rice full length cDNA sequence data were used to design probes of 22K rice oligoarray (Agilent Technologies), and the reproducibility and reliability of the oligoarray has been confirmed, and reported by many researchers.
Advantage of microarray experiment is that many gene expression profiles can be obtained by only a few experiments, and researchers can select many candidate genes that are important to some phenotypes. However, for the further analysis of gene function, "many" genes are problem. If number of candidate genes were more than a few hundreds, almost researchers could not extract important genes from candidate genes. Therefore, tools of finding important genes are needed. In this talk, we will present about data sharing and utilization of QTL information for microarray data analysis.