NCBI GEO - There's gotta be a better way

[ETHANol]

The amount of ChIP-seq data is piling up and the most common place people dump their published data seems to be NCBI GEO. It just seems to me to be the wrong way to do it. GEO wasn't built for ChIP-seq. First you have to download the data, then if you want to view it on UCSC you have to upload it there. But that is often easier said then done as much of the data is not in a form that will upload onto UCSC or any other genome visualizer for that matter.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a database where you could just take a quick look into someone's published data like you can with UCSC tracks?

Shouldn't people make a file of called peaks so others don't have to rerun their data through a peak calling program?

What's the solution? I don't know. I'm a biologist but there's got to be a better way. Is anybody working on this?

[Chipper]

Take a look at the human/mouse ChIP database, which was recently published in Bioinformatics.

http://jilab.biostat.jhsph.edu/database/cgi-bin/hmChIP.pl