A status report on MAGE

Recently, the Microarray Gene Expression Data Society (MGED,www.mged.org) was awarded funds from NHGRI/NIH to continue developmentof MAGE, the MGED Ontology (MO) and related technologies forcommunication and interpretation of microarray data. This awardreflects NIH's substantial commitment of resources to microarrayexperimentation and the recognition that these data should bepreserved. In this editorial I discuss MGED's goals, show howMGED's efforts have helped the microarray community and describeMGED's future efforts in the context of the recent award. What is MGED Trying to Do? MGED's efforts are 2-fold. First, it is committed to ensurethat microarray experiments are scientifically sound. Second,it is involved in building the infrastructure that will support