ArrayExpress Atlas 1.0 Released!

Hello!

After a long, productive silence, we have released the first real production version of ArrayExpress Atlas. Take a look at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/atlas.

What's new? Well, under the hood, just about everything:

• Completely new query architecture. Before, we used Solr only for full-text search on gene and condition attributes. Now, we are pushing the Lucene engine to the limit by using it for numeric queries as well. A separate post on how that works (and how it doesn't) is coming soon.
• Completely new Heatmap View. Take a look at, say, all human kinases active in neoplastic disease. We've added drill-down filters, capacity for advanced queries, clickable heatmap cells that display gene expression profiles and other information.
• Completely new Advanced Query. You can build up an advanced query now, e.g., all human transcription factors up-regulated in glioblastoma and suppressed in normal brain tissues.
• Atlas Gene pages. A nice, fast gene-wise view of Atlas data. You can link to Atlas now by lots of identifiers, e.g. Ensembl Genes, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/atlas/gene?gid=ENSG00000071564 or Uniprot accessions, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/atlas/gene?gid=P15923.

We hope you like the new software. There are lots of other things we are preparing and we'll try to keep this blog updated more frequently now.

Cheers,

Misha Kapushesky & the Atlas Team.