text: Microarray data was found to be more useful when compared to other similar datasets. The sheer volume of data, specialized formats (such as MIAME), and curation efforts associated with the datasets require specialized databases to store the data. A number of open-source data warehousing solutions, such as InterMine and [http://www.biomart.org/ BioMart], have been created for the specific purpose of integrating diverse biological datasets, and also support analysis.