Abstract

Minimum reporting guidelines, terminologies and formats (referred to generally as community standards) are increasingly used in the structuring and curation of datasets, enabling data annotation to varying degrees and reproducible research. But how can we enable researchers to make use of existing community standards and maximize curation and sharing and their subsequent reuse of richly annotated experimental information? A successful example is provided by the Investigation/Study/Assay (ISA) open source, metadata tracking framework supported by the growing ISA Commons community