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August 02, 2006
Omics Standards (Omics Series, 18)
As with most new fields, as the discipline reaches maturity there is a call for standards and guidelines, both relating to practice as well as to terminology. The omics fields have reached that maturity with astonishing rapidity, and have had standards development efforts underway for a few years now. In thte resources listed below, you will find standards organizations at international, national, and topical levels; background information about standardization efforts in the omics fields; and much more. For University of Michigan patrons, we would like to highlight the marvelous resource from the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library on the many standards resources available to our campus. Again, we close the blog entry with a web search for those interested in finding more on this topic.
* STANDARDS, SPECIFICATIONS & GUIDELINES
Foresight Institute: Molecular Nanotechnology Guidelines: http://www.foresight.org/guidelines/
* COLLECTIONS, GUIDES AND SOURCES:
University Library: Art, Architecture and Engineering Library: Standards: http://www.lib.umich.edu/aael/division.php?divisionID=16&d=v
Georgia Tech Library: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology: Standards & Specifications: http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/subject/index.php?/nanoscience/standards
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Research by Subject: Nanotechnology: http://nvl.nist.gov/nvl2.cfm?dynamic=res_subj&subjectid=17
IEEE Standards Online: Nanotechnology Standards: http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/nanotech.html [Requires UM login, access via AAEL page]
* STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS:
American National Standards Institute's Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP): http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/nsp/overview.aspx?menuid=3
Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF): Proteomics Standards Research Group Research Group: http://www.abrf.org/index.cfm/group.show/ProteomicsStandardsResearchGroup.47.htm
HUPO (HUman Proteome Organization): Proteomics Standards Initiative: http://psidev.sourceforge.net/
"The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) defines community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparision, exchange and verification."
ISO - International Organization for Standardization: TC229, Nanotechnologies: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeDetailPage.TechnicalCommitteeDetail?COMMID=5932
Microarray Gene Expression Data Society: http://www.mged.org/
SOFG (Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics): http://www.sofg.org/
* ABOUT OMICS STANDARDIZATION EFFORTS:
Capello, Jolinda. Overview of Nanotechnology: Risks, Initiatives and Standardization. American Society of Safety Engineers: http://www.asse.org/nantechArticle.htm
European Bioinformatics Institute: Meetings: Proteomics Standards Initiative: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/meetings/psi.html
European Science Foundation: Integrated Approaches for Functional Genomics: Standardisation, benchmarking and comparision of different experimental systems: http://www.functionalgenomics.org.uk/sections/programme/standardisation.htm
IEEE Standards Association: Nanotechnology Standards Initiatives at IEEE: http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/bkgnd_nanostdsinit.html
National Institute of Standards and Technology: Nanotechnology Is BIG at NIST: http://www.nist.gov/nanotech/
NIH Roadmap: Standards in Proteomics Workshop: Agenda: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/buildingblocks/proteomics/
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Posted by pfa at August 2, 2006 09:41 PM