Sansone Susanna-Assunta, Rocca-Serra Philippe, Field Dawn, Taylor Chris F, Tong Weida, Brandizi Marco, Maguire Eamonn, Sklyar Nataliya
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK.
Summit Transl Bioinform. 2009 Mar 1;2009:112-5.
As the size and complexity of scientific datasets and the corresponding information stores grow, standards for collecting, describing, formatting, submitting and exchanging information are playing an increasingly active role. Several initiatives occupy strategic positions in the international scenario, both within and across domains. However, the job of harmonising reporting standards is still very much a work in progress; both software interoperability and the data integration remain challenging as things stand.
The status quo with respect to standardization initiatives is summarized here, with particular emphasis on the motivation for, and the challenges of, ongoing synergistic activities amongst the academic community focused on the creation of truly interoperable standards.
Groups generating standards should engage with ongoing cross-domain activities to simplify the integration of heterogeneous data sets to the greatest possible extent.
随着科学数据集及相应信息存储的规模和复杂性不断增加,信息收集、描述、格式化、提交及交换的标准正发挥着越来越积极的作用。在国际环境中,无论是在领域内还是跨领域,有多项举措占据着战略地位。然而,协调报告标准的工作仍在很大程度上进行之中;就目前情况而言,软件互操作性和数据集成仍然具有挑战性。
本文总结了标准化举措的现状,特别强调了学术界正在进行的协同活动的动机以及所面临的挑战,这些活动旨在创建真正可互操作的标准。
制定标准的团体应参与正在进行的跨领域活动,以尽可能简化异构数据集的集成。