Open AccessCOnTORT: COmprehensive Transcriptomic ORganizational Tool for Simultaneously Retrieving and Organizing Numerous Gene Expression Data Sets from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus Database
Author(s) -
Kevin S. Myers,
Michael Place,
Daniel R. Noguera,
Timothy J. Donohue
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
microbiology resource announcements
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.383
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2576-098X
DOI - 10.1128/mra.00587-20
Subject(s) - metadata , database , gene , expression (computer science) , gene expression , transcriptome , computational biology , microarray databases , gene nomenclature , computer science , information retrieval , biology , gene expression profiling , world wide web , genetics , programming language , taxonomy (biology) , botany , nomenclature
We introduce COnTORT ( CO mprehensive T ranscriptomic OR ganizational T ool), a publicly available program that retrieves all available gene expression data and associated metadata for an organism from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. The data are compiled into text files that can be used for downstream bioinformatic applications.