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Volume 6
(2):114-120, 2005.
Aerts JA1,
Veenendaal T2
1Bioinformatics Group, Roslin
Institute, United Kingdom, 2Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Wageningen University, The
Netherlands.
Aerts JA, Veenendaal T, MIPE -- a XML-format to facilitate the storage
and exchange of PCR-related data, Onl J Bioinform., 6 (2):114-120, 2005. Although data
exchange formats exist in the fields of sequence-annotation, microarray and
other applications, no general format is available for PCR-related data. An XML
format that describes PCR experiments in detail, MIPE (Minimal Information for
PCR Experiments) was implemented to facilitate exchange between raw and
interpreted PCR data. Data can be recorded on the design of the PCR experiment
(e.g. the primer sequences and temperature profile) as well as on the results
of that experiment (including the resulting DNA sequence and any
single-nucleotide polymorphisms detected). This format can be used both for the
storage and the exchange of PCR-related data.
KEYWORDS:
MIPE, PCR, XML, data storage, data exchange