EMBL Guest Seminar

	Title:	A Database for Cross-species Gene Expression Pattern Comparisons
	Speaker:	Dr. Thorsten Henrich Computational Biologist Center for Computatinal Biology EMBL Heidelberg,Germany
	Place:	National Institute for Basic Biology Meeting room (111)
	Date:	October 26 (Wed), 2005
	Abstract:	Gene expression data determined by in situ hybridization experiments are a valuable resource because they provide information on the localization of a transcript, with a spatial resolution, which cannot be reached with any other high throughput approach. Through robotics high throughput in situ hybridization experiments have been performed and databases to capture these data have been developed for the major model species, however data is stored in many different ways and formats. Here I want to discuss a standard way to store and organize in situ data and introduce approaches to analyze them by hierarchical clustering. Data analysis can be used to support the search for cis-regulatory modules responsible for synexpression.