A simple spreadsheet-based, MIAME-supportive format for microarray data: MAGE-TAB

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Table 4 An example of an ADF document.

Block Column	Block Row	Column	Row	Reporter ID	Reporter Sequence	Reporter Group	Control Type	CompositeElement ID
1	1	1	1	R1	ATGGTTGGTTACGTGT	experimental		PTEN
1	1	1	2	R2	CCGCGTTGCCCCGCC	experimental		PAX2
1	1	1	3	R3	CGTAGCTGATCGATGA	experimental		WWOX
1	1	1	4	R4	GGTTGGCTGAGATCGT	experimental		MAPK8
1	1	2	1	R1	ATGGTTGGTTACGTGT	experimental		PTEN
1	1	2	2	R2	CCGCGTTGCCCCGCC	experimental		PAX2
1	1	2	3	R3	CGTAGCTGATCGATGA	experimental		WWOX
1	1	2	4	R4	GGTTGGCTGAGATCGT	experimental		MAPK8
...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
4	6	20	20	462020	TCCCTTCCGTTGTCCT	control	control_spike_calibration

Note how the information about Reporter and CompositeElement is duplicated to indicate the fact that every synthetic sequence is spotted more than once on the array.

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