Table of Contents
Animal Imaging Database(AIDB) data source plugin
User Manual
Introduction
The AIDB data source plugins allows the user to query the publicly available Animal Imaging Database.
Getting Started
To access the AIDB data source plugin
- open the Search Workspace
- switch to the query term subworkspace by selecting Search > By query terms in the menu bar
Functional Specification
Search and Data types
The AIDB data source plugin supports the following search types:
- Search by query terms
- Search by keyword
The AIDB data source plugin returns the following type of data:
- Vector (derived from AIDBScanProduct that is converted to AIDBVolume derived from Volume3D)
Supported Query Terms
| Group | Parameter | Value | Supported | Notes |
|---|
| Experimental Info | Project | any | yes | |
| Keyword (Project) | yes | |
| |
| Gene/Molecule | Gene Attribute | Gene Symbol | yes | |
| Gene Name | yes | |
| Protein | yes | |
| Keyword | yes | |
| |
| Subject/Organism | Species | Mouse | yes | |
| Strains | any | yes | |
| C57BL | yes | |
| 129s6 | yes | |
| A/J | yes | |
| B6D2F1 | yes | |
| BALB/c | yes | |
| CBA | yes | |
| C3H | yes | |
| DBA | yes | |
| FVB | yes | |
| Developmental Stage | adult | yes | |
| embryonic | yes | |
| fetal | yes | |
| neonate/infant | yes | |
| child/pup | yes | |
| juvenile | yes | |
| Sex | any | yes | |
| female | yes | |
| male | yes | |
| other | yes | |
| |
| Anatomical Area/Tissue | Anatomical Area/Tissue | any | yes | |
| CNS (tree) | yes | |
| Other Body Part | yes | |
Annotations
For the AIDBVolume, the following annotations are listed:
- Organ
- Preferred Display Image URL
- Preferred Display Thumbnail Image URL
- Recon Datafile URL
- Region
- Scan Product Type
- Species
- Structure
Credentials
No credentials are required to query the AIDB database.
Database Connection Type
HTTP
Workspace Interoperability
- Comparison Viewer Workspace
- Open and visualize data using built-in 3D volume plugin
Error Handling
| Method | Error | Exception thrown | Notes |
|---|
searchByKeyword() | error establishing connection | yes | |
| connection dropped after initial connection | yes | |
| internal server error | yes | |
searchByQueryTerms() | error establishing connection | yes | |
| connection dropped after initial connection | yes | |
| internal server error | yes | |
WilliamSeto? - 01 May 2009
