Antibody arrays have been widely applied in both basic research and clinical studies. Data analysis, archiving, and sharing of resulting data are very important for exploring and expanding the power of antibody microarray studies. The protein microarray database (PMD) has provided standards tailored for the management of protein microarray data and constructed an automated pipeline for array data analysis. In this chapter, we will describe the framework design, platform construction, and analysis tool integration of the PMD.
Keywords: Antibody array; Data analysis; Data archiving and Data sharing; Database.