Ontologies and Processing Patterns for Microarrays

Abstract

The researchers currently have a new tool for dealing with the solution of biomedical problems: the Microarrays. These devices support the study and the acquisition of information related to many genes at the same time by means of a unique experiment, providing multiple potential applications such as mutation detection of microorganism identification. Some of the problems that exist when working with this type of technologies are the high number of data and the complex technical nomenclature to be dealt with. These facts imply the need of using several standards and ontologies when performing this type of experiments.