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Data Standards for Omics Data: The Basis of Data Sharing and Reuse

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 719))

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To facilitate sharing of Omics data, many groups of scientists have been working to establish the relevant data standards. The main components of data sharing standards are experiment description standards, data exchange standards, terminology standards, and experiment execution standards. Here we provide a survey of existing and emerging standards that are intended to assist the free and open exchange of large-format data.

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  1. Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Stephen A. Chervitz

  2. Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA

    Eric W. Deutsch

  3. NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK

    Dawn Field

  4. EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

    Helen Parkinson, Phillipe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone & Chris F. Taylor

  5. Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    John Quackenbush

  6. Department of Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Christian J. Stoeckert Jr.

  7. Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Ronald Taylor

  8. Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Catherine A. Ball

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Chervitz, S.A. et al. (2011). Data Standards for Omics Data: The Basis of Data Sharing and Reuse. In: Mayer, B. (eds) Bioinformatics for Omics Data. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 719. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-027-0_2

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