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About these pages: Resources for Bioinformaticians

These pages are about resources for bioinformaticians. NASC has many bioinformatics projects, most of which are of interest to bioinformaticians and general users. So if you are looking for Ensembl, the microarray database or the seed catalogue, these are not the pages you are after. These pages are specifically for bioinformatic applications of our services. Essentially these pages tell you "How to do stuff using our stuff using a computer".

These pages are a bit of a mixed bag at present. If you want to know how to do anything specific, please write to either the Ensembl team, the Affymetrix team, or the Germplasm team.

What pages are there?

• You can install Arabidopsis Ensembl on your own machine and have a complete copy of the website running locally. This is useful if you want to run your own programs using the Arabidopsis data. You could also add some data of your own and display it alongside ours in the genome browser. See how on the local Ensembl installation page.
• NASC has written some Perl modules for working with Affymetrix proprietary file formats. The Bio::Affymetrix homepage.
• You can obtain data from the NASCArrays database computationally using XML. This means you can obtain automatic data on growth conditions etc. See how on the NASCArrays XML page.