Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI)

MSI WGs
- Biological context metadata WG
- Chemical analysis WG
- Data processing WG
- Ontology WG
- Exchange format WG

DOCUMENTATION
- Minutes
- Presentations

MEETINGS
- MSI@PSI

LINKS
- Metabolomics Society
- Conferences

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:

WG description	WG chairs	WG list email address	WG list subscribe
Biological context metadata WG	Don Robertson, Jules Griffin, Wayne Matson, Mariet van der Werf, Basil Nikolau, Dawn Field	msi-workgroups-bio-metadata	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msi-workgroups-bio-metadata
Chemical analysis WG	Lloyd Sumner, Teresa Fan	msi-workgroups-chemical-analysis	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msi-workgroups-chemical-analysis
Data processing WG	Roy Goodacre	msi-workgroups-data-processing	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msi-workgroups-data-processing
Ontology WG	Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Ricardo Pietrobon	msi-workgroups-ontology	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msi-workgroups-ontology
Exchange format WG	Nigel Hardy, Chris Taylor	msi-workgroups-exchange-format	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msi-workgroups-exchange-format

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