Oxford University Press, Bioinformatics, 1(35), p. 172-174, 2018
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty576
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Abstract Summary Gene expression changes over the lifespan and varies among different tissues or cell types. Gene co-expression also changes by sex, age, different tissues or cell types. However, gene expression under the normal state and gene co-expression in the human brain has not been fully defined and quantified. Here we present a database named Brain EXPression Database (BrainEXP) which provides spatiotemporal expression of individual genes and co-expression in normal human brains. BrainEXP consists of 4567 samples from 2863 healthy individuals gathered from existing public databases and our own data, in either microarray or RNA-Seq library types. We mainly provide two analysis results based on the large dataset: (i) basic gene expression across specific brain regions, age ranges and sexes; (ii) co-expression analysis from different platforms. Availability and implementation http://www.brainexp.org/ Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.