bloodplus

The formation and maturation of blood cellular components, known as hematopoiesis, in human as well as mouse has been studied extensively over several decades of research, resulting in a highly detailed model of the process. In light of an ever increasing amount of hematopoietic high-throughput sequencing data it is surprising that databases dedicated to host associated experimental data (e.g. BloodExpress and EpoDB) focus on microarray expression data while databases dedicated to host generic experimental data (e.g. NCBI GEO) do not provide methodologies to compare different experimental datasets on the fly. The reliance of existing hematopoietic repositories on microarray expression data requires a new database framework that incorporates existing expression data and enriches them with next-generation sequencing data (e.g. RNA-Seq or Methylation-Seq). The Blood+ data boutique presented here, offers the user access to not only array-based hematopoietic data but also high-th