Mage-tab (microarray gene expression tabular) format is a standard from the microarray gene expression data society (mged). this package contains perl modules in the bio::mage hierarchy to manipulate miame-compliant (minimum information about a microarray experiment) records of microarray ("dna chips") experiments.

the bio::mage module contains the following bio::mage classes:
* namevaluetype
* extendable
* identifiable
* describable