We recognised that the most commonly asked questions of a microarray dataset were: "What is the expression of my gene-of-interest in this dataset", "What else behaves like this gene", "What are the genes that best discriminate between these cell types" and "How similar are these samples". We've provided a simple-to-use gene search interface and a private workbench where you can upload your own gene lists, or run some of these questions and save your results.

Stemformatics is not a substitute for good collaboration between bioinformaticians and stem cell biologists. We think of it as a stepping stone towards that collaboration. We'd like to encourage stem cell biologists to use more genomic data, so we've also provided 'translation tools' that will let you download datasets in formats that can be used by the gold-standard analysis engines such as MeV and GenePattern . We'll also point you to the scripts that we've used for our standard statistical analyses so that you can re-run and refine those analyses externally if you wish.

All of the data on this site has been handpicked, checked for experimental reproducibility and design quality, and normalized in-house. You can find documentation on all of our data processing, QC and analysis on our help page.