Table 1.

PADMA upload and retrieval criteria

PADMA houses 13 variables, which are also known as query or search criteria. The sources of these variables are as follows: three are directly from processed files (with fold induction averaged and calculated), five are specified by the administrator or user (in user upload cases) to define the dataset, and five are metadata points obtained from Affymetrix^® and FlyBase annotation files. When uploading data, eight of these variables (blue) are required in the PADMA Data File for successful upload (Fig. 1). The remaining five variables (red) are associated behind the scene during a query protocol, depending on the query tool used.