Minimum Information Standards

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Minimum Information (MI) standards or reporting guidelines specify the minimum amount of meta data (information) and data required to meet a specific aims or aims. Usually the aim is to provide enough meta data and data to enable the unambiguous reproduction and interpretation of an experiment. MI guidelines are normally informal human readable specifications that inform the development of formal data models (e.g. XML, UML, ontology) and data exchange formats e.g. (MAGE-ML, MGED-Ontology).

MI Standards

MIAME,gene expression microarray

Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) describes the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment that is needed to enable the interpretation of the results of the experiment unambiguously and potentially to reproduce the experiment and is aimed at facilitating the dissemination of data from microarray experiments.

MIAME contains a number of extensions to cover specific biological domains

MIAME-env, environmental genomics

MIAME-nut, nutrional genomics

MIAME-tox, toxogenomics

MIAME-Plant, plant

MIARE, RNAi experiment

Minimum Information About an RNAi Experiment (MIARE) is a data reporting guideline which describes the minimum information that should be reported about an RNAi experiment to enable the unambiguous interpretation and reproduction of the results.

MIACA, cell based assay

MIAPE, proteomic experiments

Minimal Information About a Proteomic Experiment documents describe information which should be given along with a proteomic experiment.

MIAPE CC, reporting requirements for column chromatography

MIAPE CE, reporting requirements for capillary electrophoresis

MIAPE MS, reporting requirements for mass spectrometry

MIAPE SP, reporting requirements for sample preparation and handling

MIAPE GE, reporting requirements for gel electrophoresis

MIAPE GI, reporting requirements for gel informatics

MIMX, reporting requirements for molecular interaction experiments

MIGS, genome sequence

The MIGS ("Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence") is being developed by the GenomicStandards Consortium (GSC). MIGS is intended to provide for the capture of a richer set of metadata describing genomic but also metagenomic datasets. Since environmental content is critical for describing metagenomic datasets, the GSC is also developing MIMS ("Minimum Information about a Metagenomic Sample") as an extension of MIGS. A manuscript describing MIGS is currently in a community consultation at Nature Biotechnology. See the GSC website for more information about contributing to this project.

MIFACE, flow cytometry

MISFISHIE, In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiments

MIAPA, Phylogenetic Analysis

MIAO, ORF

MIAMET, METabolomics experiment

MIAFGE, Functional Genomics Experiment

MIRIAM, Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical models

MIRIAM, the Minimal Information Requested In the Annotation of Models, is a set of rules for curating quantitative models of biological systems.

CIMR, Core Information for Metabolomics Reporting

References

External links

MIBBI Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations

A ‘one-stop shop’ for exploring the range of extant projects, foster collaborative development and ultimately promote gradual integration.

MGED The Microarray Gene Expression Data Society

(MGED) Society is an international organisation of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to facilitate the sharing of microarray data generated by functional genomics and proteomics experiments.

HUPO-PSI HUPO Protein Standards Initiative

The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) defines community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification.

FuGE Functional Genomics Experiment

FuGE provides a model of common components in functional genomics investigations. It can be extended to develop modular data formats and provides a consistent framework to capture complete lab workflows.

MSI The Metabolomics Standards Initiative

MSI has be appointed by the Metabolomics Society to monitor, coordinate and review the efforts of working groups in specialist areas that will examine standardization and make recommendations.

MIARE, Minimum Information About an RNAi Experiment

Minimum Information About an RNAi Experiment (MIARE) is a data reporting guideline which describes the minimum information that should be reported about an RNAi experiment to enable the unambiguous interpretation and reproduction of the results.

Nature Community Consultation

Standards papers under consideration for publication in Nature Biotechnology.