Sansone Susanna-Assunta, Rocca-Serra Philippe, Brandizi Marco, Brazma Alvis, Field Dawn, Fostel Jennifer, Garrow Andrew G, Gilbert Jack, Goodsaid Federico, Hardy Nigel, Jones Phil, Lister Allyson, Miller Michael, Morrison Norman, Rayner Tim, Sklyar Nataliya, Taylor Chris, Tong Weida, Warner Guy, Wiemann Stefan
EMBL-EBI The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
OMICS. 2008 Jun;12(2):143-9. doi: 10.1089/omi.2008.0019.
This article summarizes the motivation for, and the proceedings of, the first ISA-TAB workshop held December 6-8, 2007, at the EBI, Cambridge, UK. This exploratory workshop, organized by members of the Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society's Reporting Structure for Biological Investigations (RSBI) working group, brought together a group of developers of a range of collaborative systems to discuss the use of a common format to address the pressing need of reporting and communicating data and metadata from biological, biomedical, and environmental studies employing combinations of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics technologies along with more conventional methodologies. The expertise of the participants comprised database development, data management, and hands-on experience in the development of data communication standards. The workshop's outcomes are set to help formalize the proposed Investigation, Study, Assay (ISA)-TAB tab-delimited format for representing and communicating experimental metadata. This article is part of the special issue of OMICS on the activities of the Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC).
本文总结了2007年12月6日至8日在英国剑桥欧洲生物信息研究所（EBI）举办的首届ISA-TAB研讨会的动机及会议进程。本次探索性研讨会由微阵列基因表达数据（MGED）协会生物调查报告结构（RSBI）工作组的成员组织，汇聚了一系列协作系统的开发者，共同探讨使用通用格式来满足报告和交流生物、生物医学及环境研究中数据和元数据的迫切需求，这些研究采用了基因组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学和代谢组学技术的组合以及更传统的方法。参与者的专业知识涵盖数据库开发、数据管理以及数据通信标准开发方面的实际经验。研讨会的成果将有助于使提议的用于表示和交流实验元数据的调查、研究、分析（ISA）-TAB制表符分隔格式正式化。本文是《组学》关于基因组学标准联盟（GSC）活动的特刊的一部分。
