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Reporting standards

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Metabolomic studies generate large quantities of data. Metabolomics data sets have complexstructure and will typically be subjected to a variety of processing and analysis techniques.The data sets are expensive to collect and can be expected to hold more useful information than isextracted and used by the studies, which collected them. These aspects of metabolomics have causedworkers to consider, from the very early days of the field, what constitutes comprehensive and wellstructured metabolomics data, how it should be collected, how it should be transmitted and how, andwhere it should be stored. It has been generally assumed that the availability of well-curated datasets in standardised formats will pay large dividends for the science. This chapter considers thenature of reporting standards, the benefits that they can yield, existing data standardisation initiativesin metabolomics and related fields and discusses some issue surrounding their development.

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Hardy, N., Jenkins, H. (2007). Reporting standards. In: Nielsen, J., Jewett, M.C. (eds) Metabolomics. Topics in Current Genetics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/4735_2007_0242

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