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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE part PUBLIC |
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| 3 | "-//Dawid Weiss//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Extension for XML and graphics inclusion//EN" |
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| 4 | "../../../../lib/docbook/preprocess/dweiss-docbook-extensions.dtd"> |
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| 5 | <!-- |
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| 6 | $Id: index.xml 5825 2011-10-25 13:21:15Z jari $ |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | Copyright (C) 2007 Jari Häkkinen, Nicklas Nordborg, Martin Svensson |
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| 9 | Copyright (C) 2008 Jari Häkkinen |
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| 10 | Copyright (C) 2011 Jari Häkkinen, Nicklas Nordborg |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | This file is part of BASE - BioArray Software Environment. |
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| 13 | Available at http://base.thep.lu.se/ |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | BASE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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| 16 | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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| 17 | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 |
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| 18 | of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | BASE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 21 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 22 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 23 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 26 | along with BASE. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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| 27 | --> |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | <part id="overviewdoc"> |
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| 30 | <?dbhtml filename="overview.html"?> |
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| 31 | <title>Overview</title> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <partintro id="overview_intro"> |
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| 34 | <para> |
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| 35 | BASE is a freely available software solution designed for |
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| 36 | laboratories looking for a single point of storage for all |
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| 37 | information related to their experimentation and for storing, |
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| 38 | managing, and analysing genomics/transcriptomics data. BASE |
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| 39 | offers a multi-user local data repository featuring a web |
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| 40 | browser user interface, laboratory information management system |
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| 41 | (LIMS) for biomaterials and array production, annotations such |
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| 42 | as clinical information, hierarchical overview of analysis, and |
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| 43 | integrates tools like <ulink |
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| 44 | url='http://www.tm4.org/mev/'>MultiExperiment Viewer</ulink>. |
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| 45 | </para> |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | <para> |
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| 48 | BASE is <ulink |
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| 49 | url='http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html'>GPLv3 |
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| 50 | licensed</ulink> and can be freely downloaded and installed by |
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| 51 | anyone. Once installed and configured, the system comprise a |
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| 52 | database layer and a web server coupled to layers of software |
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| 53 | for managing and analysing data in the database. |
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| 54 | </para> |
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| 55 | </partintro> |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | <include file="why_base.xml"/> |
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| 58 | <include file="features.xml"/> |
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| 59 | <include file="resources.xml"/> |
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| 60 | </part> |
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