Figure 1From: BEAT: Bioinformatics Exon Array Tool to store, analyze and visualize Affymetrix GeneChip Human Exon Array data from disease experimentsArchitecture of the BEAT platform. BEAT was designed using a typical three tier architecture. The first tier consists of a data warehouse, which stores all data sources and statistical processed data allowing smart data storing and efficient data retrieving. The Service-integration tier consists of a Tomcat application server and a set of applications performing exon and gene level analysis. The web front-end tier is the query interface, with its advanced query system and interactive plots.Back to article page