GEO as a broker for the SRA

kovaliuk · 08-23-2012, 03:38 AM

Hello,

We have been told that GEO is a broker for the SRA – that if datasets are submitted to GEO, then GEO will submit the appropriate data and metadata to SRA.
our questions are:
- is that the case?
- with respect to NGS data, does GEO only contain data from gene expression experiments, or does it contain NGS data from other kinds of experiments?
- If GEO does automatically submit some data to the SRA are there any signs in the metadata that this has occurred? For example, many studies in SRA have a GDS number which relates to GEO; could these all be datasets which were brokered by GEO?

Thanks for your time.

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08-23-2012, 03:38 AM	#1
kovaliuk Junior Member Location: UK Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 6	GEO as a broker for the SRA Hello, We have been told that GEO is a broker for the SRA – that if datasets are submitted to GEO, then GEO will submit the appropriate data and metadata to SRA. our questions are: - is that the case? - with respect to NGS data, does GEO only contain data from gene expression experiments, or does it contain NGS data from other kinds of experiments? - If GEO does automatically submit some data to the SRA are there any signs in the metadata that this has occurred? For example, many studies in SRA have a GDS number which relates to GEO; could these all be datasets which were brokered by GEO? Thanks for your time.