Image and data upload

Image and data upload

This page shows all images and data files that were uploaded for the slides in your project. If you want to submit new images and data files for a scanned hybridized microarray push the "upload image and data files" button on the upper right of the page. Fill out every field marked with a red star ( required fields ) on the opening page. You always have to upload two images (one for every channel). If you scanned the microarray with the imagene software you have to upload two data files too. If you scanned with the genepix software do not fill the data file form for channel 2. Just fill out the data file form forchannel 1 .An error message will appear on top of the page if you submitted data in the wrong format or did not fill all reqired fields. The fields that were filled with the wrong data are highlighted in red. Please notice, that select boxes have to be set again after submitting wrong data.

Required fields

The fields that have to be filled for the image upload are

• Slide-ID, choose the slide you scanned and you want to upload images and data files of.(Just choose a slide that were assigned to you )
• Date, the date the images and data files are uploaded
• Pixel size, (always filled, Default is "None")
• Channel, the channel the microarray were scanned with (always filled, Default is "None")
• File format, the format of the image. Usually it is .tiff. (Always filled. Default is tiff)
• Location of image file, the path to the image file on your computer

The fields that have to be filled for the data file upload are

• Used software, the software the microarray was scanned with (always filled, Default is "None")
• Location of the data file, the path to the data file on your computer

Optional fields

You can also upload some additional data for the images

• Laser power [%], the power of the laser the microarray was scanned with
• PMT [%]
• Scan rate [%]
• Remarks, remarks of the scanning process for an image

You can also upload some additional data for the data files

• Description, description of the data file
• Normalized, wether the image was normalized or not (Always filled. Default is " -No- ")
• Filtered, wether the image was filtered or not (always filled. Default is " -No- ")