Table 2.

Comparison of MIMAS 3.0 with other solutions as described in the literature.

	MIMAS 3	BASE 2	MARS	SBEAMS	MiMiR	maxdload2	MIAMExpress
Affymetrix GeneChip	*	*		*	*	*	*
Two-color Microarray		*	*	*	*	*	*
Illumina BeadArray	*	*
UHTS	*
MIAME compliant	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
MAGE-TAB export	*	*					*
MAGE-ML export		*	*		*	*	*
MGED Ontology support	*		*		*	*	*
Connectivity to analysis and visualization tools	*	*	*	*	*	*
User and group management	*	*	*	*	*
Object sharing and permissions management	*	*	*	*	*
Web application	*	*	*	*			*
User Notifications/Messages	*	*	*
Wizard-based annotation and experiment creation	*	*