“…There are two major types of informatics solutions that are required for the management of microarray data: (a) software, usually installed locally, that allows storage, querying and analysis of data captured on‐site2, 17, 19; and (b) databases that act as repositories for publicly available data and, in particular, published data2, 9, 18, 19, 25, 30, 35, 40. In this article, we shall briefly address the local packages by giving a list of the main ones that are currently available, and then we shall concentrate on the latter databases by giving details about how to use them and what data they contain.…”