Temporal queries for time-series data - (Jul/10/2003 )

I an currently doing a PhD at the school of computing, working towards developing a piece of software to help in the analysis of microarray data.

At the requirements analysis stage of the project I have made the assumption that people are interested in making quantified temporal queries on their data. For example - tell me all the genes that are rising (log fold change above 1) early (time 0-5), or tell me all the genes that are high ( average above 0.5) late (time 5 to 10), etc. The tool will allow the user to combine such queries and the interface is to be very visual and easy to use.

Are biologists interested in this sort of thing?

p.craig@napier.ac.uk
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~cpaul

Hi
there is allready in the internet interface some microarray programs which are quite interesting, look for example www.race.unil.ch. and there are free so if you wanna look and compare with what you are doing it is a good idea.
Basicely the aim of the scientist is to compare groups of signatures or tu select interesting gene for one group. the way to get there (I am not an informatician) is certainly different in every programs.
I wish you good luck in your work.
cuca