Human Brain Atlas: Microarray Data Download

Hi @jinkuizhu,

The short answer is that you cannot download all the z-scores at once, but you have two choices to get them:

  1. If you are looking at a search result in the app when z-scores are currently being shown, then you can download data for your current view by clicking on the download data button at the bottom of the page.
  2. You can download the normalized values and then calculate them yourself for each probe-set independently as [x-mean(x)]/[stdev(x)], where x is the values for a given gene across all microarray samples.

There are several forum topics (i.e., this one) related to idiosyncrasies of how z-scores are calculated in different situations and personally I’d recommend using the normalized values instead, but if you want z scores, it should be a straightforward and computationally inexpensive calculation.

Best,
Jeremy