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The
Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI)
From November 2015: You will be redirected to the new MSI site
http://metabolomics-msi.org/
The Metabolomics
Society has appointed an Oversight Committee to monitor,
coordinate and review the efforts of working groups (WG) in specialist
areas that will examine standardization and make recommendations. The overall chair of this committee is Oliver Fiehn. The
five MSI WGs, some of which are divided into further subgroups, are
listed here:
Biological context metadata WG
Chemical analysis WG
Data processing WG
Ontology WG
Exchange format WG
The structure of the WGs thus follows the
general “workflow” model in metabolomics: from a
description of the study design to sample workup, data acquisition,
processing and export, bound together by controlled vocabularies and
relationships between the terms used.
The MSI WGs are
working towards developing the following standards:
- Core
Information for Metabolomics Reporting (CIMR): This
document
will specify the minimal guidelines reporting metabolomics work. It
will do so in a textual form and will seek in the long term to cover
all application areas and analysis technologies. This document will be
developed by the
biological context metadata WG, the chemical
analysis WG, the data
processing WG, the exchange
format WG and the
ontology WG.
- Ontology:
The CV and ontology will be developed iteratively by the ontology WG
on the basis of CIMR. This will be done in collaboration with: HUPO-PSI, MGED and FuGO.
- Exchange
format:
A data model and exchange format will be developed by the exchange
format WG on the basis of CIMR, making use of the MSI
ontology. This will be done in a collaborative and iterative approach,
including HUPO-PSI
and FUGE.
How to join MSI workgroups
If you want to join one or more of the WGs please do so through their
mailing-lists:
This website is maintained by Daniel Schober: schober[at]ebi.ac.uk
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