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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 24, 2006
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbl008
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Metabolomics Standards Workshop and the development of international standards for reporting metabolomics experimental results

Arthur L. Castle *, Oliver Fiehn, Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, and John C. Lindon

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Arthur L. Castle, E-mail: castlea{at}mail.nih.gov


  Abstract

Informatics standards and controlled vocabularies are essential for allowing information technology to help exchange, manage, interpret and compare large data collections. In a rapidly evolving field, the challenge is to work out how best to describe, but not prescribe, the use of these technologies and methods. A Metabolomics Standards Workshop was held by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring together multiple ongoing standards efforts in metabolomics with the NIH research community. The goals were to discuss metabolomics workflows (methods, technologies and data treatments) and the needs, challenges and potential approaches to developing a Metabolomics Standards Initiative that will help facilitate this rapidly growing field which has been a focus of the NIH roadmap effort. This report highlights specific aspects of what was presented and discussed at the 1st and 2nd August 2005 Metabolomics Standards Workshop.

Keywords: metabolomics; metabonomics; minimum information standards; metabolic profiling.

Arthur Castle is the NIH Program Director for the Roadmap Metabolomics Technology Development program and the NIDDK Program Director for Metabolomics and Informatics.

Dr Oliver Fiehn is an Associate Professor at the UC Davis Genome Center and chairs the efforts on ‘Standards for Reporting Metabolomics Studies’ for the Metabolomics Society.

Rima Kaddurah-Daouk is an Associate Research Professor at Duke University Medical Center and the current President of the Metabolomics Society.

John Lindon is a Professor in the Biological Chemistry section of the Biomedical Sciences Division of Imperial College London, UK. His research interests lie in the development and application of analytical and chemometric techniques to studies of endogenous and xenobiotic metabolism.


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