Knowledgeblog ArrayExpress

Description

Interprets the [aexp] shortcode to extract and display metadata from the ArrayExpress XML API.
The correct shortcode format is [aexp = “id”]metadata[/aexp]
Where id is the accession number of the ArrayExpress holding you wish to interrogate and metadata is one of the following types

species : returns species
accession : returns linked accession
submissiondate : returns submission date
lastupdate : returns last update date
releasedate : returns release date
name : returns short experiment description
description : returns long experiment description
score : returns MIAME scores (out of 5)
contact : returns contact email address and role if supplied
citation : returns citation, publication information and link to PubMed if supplied
datafiles : returns links to raw and processed data files, sdrf and idf files
png : returns and links the experimental design png
svg : returns and links the experimental design svg
assays : returns the number of assays
samples : returns the number of samples
arraydesign : returns and links to the array platform
experimenttypes : returns the experiment types (time course data, aCGH, dye swapped etc.)
experimentalfactors : returns the experiment factors (drug dose, timepoints, genotypes, compounds etc.)
sampleattributes : returns the sample attributes (organism part, developmental stage, tissue source, sex, strain etc.)

Copyright

This plugin is copyright Daniel Swan, Newcastle University and is licensed under GPLv2.