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Arraylayout Guidelines

An arraylayout is essential for your microarray experiment. All further processing and analysis is based on the layout. A wrong layout leads to a wrong calculation! In order to provide MIAME compliant annotations, mandatory fields in the ADF format for EMMA are the same fields as in ArrayExpress.

Please have a look at the ADF Guidelines at the EBI for detailed descriptions and ADF Checklist at the EBI for a quick overview and checklist before you upload your ADF-file.

If you have a layout in the GAL-format, this can easily be converted to the ADF-format using the spotter file to ADF converter at the EBI.