Dear Christopher and all,
yes, you are right, the framework supports use of terms from ontology (better described in the first paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679334).
But it is also correct that we present several systems - powered by ISA tools or ISA-Tab format. Maybe these could also be seen as 'competitive' systems, as you says, but this is the reality: in data management there are many systems around and all have different features and functionality etc. We are dealing with this a real situation, see how to best harmonize the description of experiments, in different systems, one step at the time, piloting the approach and leading by examples. This first step shows how these existing systems work to use a common format (that enables use of terms for ontology, and meet requirements of some checkists)
that can be converted to some other formats (as required by public repositories).
I hope this helps, but am happy to reply to any questions.
Kind regards,
Susanna
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From: Christopher Spottiswoode <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2 February 2012 11:04
Subject: [ontolog-forum] isacommons.org
for life-science data-sharing
To: "[ontolog-forum]" < ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Does anybody here, perhaps with
bio-ontology or data federation interests, have any comment
on this effort (see http://www.isacommons.org/) ?
But does the whole effort have the
support of the bio-ontology community? Or does the latter
community not have parallel and perhaps competitive
facilities addressing the same needs?
ACM TechNews last Monday had this news
item:
Oxford, Harvard Scientists Lead Data-Sharing Effort
Harvard University (01/29/12)
More than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific
organizations worldwide, led by researchers at the
University of Oxford and Harvard University, have developed
a common standard that will enable scientists to share data
from different databases in fields ranging from genetics to
environmental studies. The new standard provides a way for
researchers in different fields to coordinate each other's
findings by combining the different data sets. "We are now
working together to provide the means to manage enormous
quantities of otherwise incompatible data," says Oxford's
Susanna-Assunta Sansone. The data-sharing effort's online
presence is known as the ISA Commons. "One of the things
that I find most empowering about this effort is that now
small research groups can begin to store laboratory data
using this framework, complying with community standards,
without their own dedicated bioinformatics support," says
the University of Cambridge's Jules Griffin. Sansone says a
common standard was necessary due to the deluge of data and
technologies used by scientists. "There are hundreds of new
technologies coming along but also many ways to describe the
information produced," she says. "We can take a jigsaw
puzzle of different sciences and now fit the many pieces
together to form a complete picture."
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