| Glossary Term | Assay |
| Definition | In general, the qualitative or quantitative analysis of a substance. In MGI, an assay is a type of experiment that is designed to detect the level of gene expression of a particular gene, or to determine the pattern of expression of a gene among different tissue types, anatomical structures, or developmental stages. The assay may detect one or more of the RNA transcripts of a gene or one or more of its protein products. Assay types in MGI include: |
Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO) |
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