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The rapid development of microarray technologies has led to a similar progression in gene expression analysis methods, gene expression applications, and gene expression databases. Public gene expression databases enable any researcher to examine expression of their favorite genes across a wide variety of samples, download sample data for development of new analysis methods, or answer broad questions about gene expression regulation, among other applications. A wide variety of public gene expression databases exist, and they vary in their content, analysis capabilities, and ease of use. This review highlights the current features and describes examples of two broad categories of mammalian microarray databases: tissue gene expression databases and data warehouses.

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The authors thank the reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions and the Novartis Research Foundation for financial support.

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Walker, J.R., Wiltshire, T. Databases of free expression. Mamm Genome 17, 1141–1146 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-006-0043-5

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