GENSAT Entrez data source plugin

User Manual

Introduction

The GENSAT (Entrez) data source plugins allows the user to query the publicly available NCBI GENSAT database(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gensat/) and retrieve the images hosted at NCBI.

Getting Started

To access the GENSAT (Entrez) data source plugin

1. open the Search Workspace
2. switch to the query term subworkspace by selecting Search > By query terms in the menu bar

Functional Specification

Search and Data types

The GENSAT (Entrez) data source plugin supports the following search types:

1. Search by keyword

The GENSAT (Entrez) data source plugin returns the following type of data:

1. 2D Image

Annotations

For the 2DImage, the following annotations are listed:

1. Name
2. Image ID
3. Age
4. Full Size Image Height
5. Full Size Image Width
6. Icon Image Width
7. Medium Size Image Height
8. Regular Image Height
9. MGI ID
10. Gene ID
11. Technique
12. Section Plane
13. Bac Address
14. Stain
15. Gene Name
16. Accession
17. Organism
18. Bac Marker
19. Sex
20. Gene Alias
21. Genbank ID
22. Gene Symbol
23. Annotation List
24. Section Level
25. Magnification

Credentials

No credentials are required to query the GENSAT (Rockefeller) database.

Database Connection Type

HTTP

Workspace Interoperability

• Comparison Viewer Workspace
  1. Open and visualize data using built-in 2D image plugin
• GeneExpression Viewer
  1. It would be a new feature of future release.

Error Handling

QueenieNg^? - 27 Apr 2009