Glossary
This glossary defines acronyms, abbreviations, and terminology used in this guide.
Term | Definition |
|---|---|
caBIG | cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid |
caBIO | Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects |
caCORE | cancer Common Ontologic Representation Environment |
caDSR | Cancer Data Standards Repository |
caMOD | Cancer Models Database |
CGH | Comparative Genomic Hybridization |
EBI | European Bioinformatics Institute |
EVS | Enterprise Vocabulary Services |
MAGE 1.1 | MAGE 1.1 is a widely-used microarray data standard or guideline |
MAGE-ML software format | XML-based standard for representation of microarray data |
MIAME 1.1 | MIAME1.1. is a standard or guideline for the minimum amount of information required to make a microarray record useful to others. |
MGED Ontology | MGED Ontology is a controlled vocabulary standard that concisely defines terms as they relate to Microarrays and caArray as a whole |
MGED | Microarray Gene Expression Data Society |
MMHCC | Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium |
NCI | National Cancer Institute |
NCICB | National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
URL | Uniform Resource Locators |
XML | Extensible Markup Language () - XML is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML |
