Datatypes

ArrayExpress accession

ID arrayexpress_accession

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Accession of an experiment or array design in ArrayExpress, the EMBL-EBI archive of functional genomics data, now a collection of the BioStudies database. It is a letter (E for an experiment, A for an array design), a hyphen, a four-character code of the submission route, such as MEXP or MTAB, a hyphen and a number.

Categories
Scientific
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Bioregistry
arrayexpress
Quality
78/100 · missing: second example, translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

^[AEP]-\w{4}-\d+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
E-MEXP-1712Transcription profiling of Streptococcus gordonii wild type and Brf mutants; Bioregistry example
E-MEXP1712 invalidMissing hyphen before the number

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