Standard annotation of environmental OMICS data: application to the transcriptomics domain

Morrison, Norman, Wood, A. Joseph, Hancock, David, Shah, Sonia, Hakes, Luke, Gray, Tanya, Tiwari, Bela, Kille, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6023-5221, Cossins, Andrew, Hegarty, Matthew, Allen, Michael J., Wilson, William H., Olive, Peter, Last, Kim, Kramer, Cas, Bailhache, Thierry, Reeves, Jonathan, Pallett, Denise, Warne, Justin, Nashar, Karim, Parkinson, Helen, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Stevens, Robert, Snape, Jason, Brass, Andy and Field, Dawn 2006. Standard annotation of environmental OMICS data: application to the transcriptomics domain. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology 10 (2) , pp. 172-178. 10.1089/omi.2006.10.172

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Abstract

Researchers working on environmentally relevant organisms, populations, and communities are increasingly turning to the application of OMICS technologies to answer fundamental questions about the natural world, how it changes over time, and how it is influenced by anthropogenic factors. In doing so, the need to capture meta-data that accurately describes the biological "source" material used in such experiments is growing in importance. Here, we provide an overview of the formation of the "Env" community of environmental OMICS researchers and its efforts at considering the meta-data capture needs of those working in environmental OMICS. Specifically, we discuss the development to date of the Env specification, an informal specification including descriptors related to geographic location, environment, organism relationship, and phenotype. We then describe its application to the description of environmental transcriptomic experiments and how we have used it to extend the Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) data standard to create a domain-specific extension that we have termed MIAME/Env. Finally, we make an open call to the community for participation in the Env Community and its future activities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Publisher:	Mary Ann Liebert
ISSN:	1536-2310
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 08:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/62652

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