Commentary

Nature Biotechnology 26, 889 - 896 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt0808-889

Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project

Chris F Taylor1,2, Dawn Field2,3, Susanna-Assunta Sansone1,2, Jan Aerts4, Rolf Apweiler1, Michael Ashburner5, Catherine A Ball6, Pierre-Alain Binz7,8, Molly Bogue9, Tim Booth2, Alvis Brazma1, Ryan R Brinkman10, Adam Michael Clark11, Eric W Deutsch12, Oliver Fiehn13, Jennifer Fostel14, Peter Ghazal15, Frank Gibson16, Tanya Gray2,3, Graeme Grimes15, John M Hancock17, Nigel W Hardy18, Henning Hermjakob1, Randall K Julian, Jr19, Matthew Kane20, Carsten Kettner21, Christopher Kinsinger22, Eugene Kolker23,24, Martin Kuiper25, Nicolas Le Novère1, Jim Leebens-Mack26, Suzanna E Lewis27, Phillip Lord16, Ann-Marie Mallon17, Nishanth Marthandan28, Hiroshi Masuya29, Ruth McNally30, Alexander Mehrle31, Norman Morrison2,32, Sandra Orchard1, John Quackenbush33, James M Reecy34, Donald G Robertson35, Philippe Rocca-Serra1,36, Henry Rodriguez22, Heiko Rosenfelder31, Javier Santoyo-Lopez15, Richard H Scheuermann28, Daniel Schober1, Barry Smith37, Jason Snape38, Christian J Stoeckert, Jr39, Keith Tipton40, Peter Sterk1, Andreas Untergasser41, Jo Vandesompele42 & Stefan Wiemann31

  1. European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK.
  2. Natural Environment Research Council Environmental Bioinformatics Centre, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK.
  3. Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK.
  4. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK.
  5. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
  6. Stanford Microarray Database, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA.
  7. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
  8. Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA, Avenue de Champel 25, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland.
  9. Jax Mouse Phenome Project, The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.
  10. Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver V5Z 1L3, British Columbia, Canada.
  11. The Lance Armstrong Foundation, PO Box 161150, Austin, Texas 78716-1150, USA.
  12. Institute for Systems Biology, 1441 N. 34th Street, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA.
  13. University of California Davis, Genome Center, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, California 95616, USA.
  14. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2233, USA.
  15. Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh Medical School, The Chancellor's Building, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK.
  16. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.
  17. Bioinformatics Group, Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK.
  18. Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK.
  19. Indigo BioSystems, Inc., 111 Congressional Boulevard, Suite 160, Carmel, Indiana 46032, USA.
  20. Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA.
  21. Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften, Trakehner Strasse 7-9, D-60487 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  22. Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute, Bldg 31A, Rm 10A52, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
  23. Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, 1900 9th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA.
  24. Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA.
  25. Department of Plant Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium; Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium; and Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
  26. Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7271, USA.
  27. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Life Sciences Addition, University of California, Berkeley, California 94729-3200, USA.
  28. Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390 USA.
  29. RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-0074 Japan.
  30. Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Lancaster University, Institute for Advanced Studies, IAS Building, County South, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
  31. Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
  32. School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
  33. Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
  34. Department of Animal Science, Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, 2255 Kildee Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-3150, USA.
  35. Bristol-Myers Squibb, Route 206 & Province Line Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-4000, USA.
  36. NuGO, The European Nutrigenomics Organisation (http://www.nugo.org/).
  37. Department of Philosophy and Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
  38. AstraZeneca UK Ltd., Brixham, Devon TQ5 8BA, UK.
  39. Department of Genetics, Center for Bioinformatics, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6021, USA.
  40. School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
  41. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
  42. Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.

Correspondence to: Chris F Taylor1,2 e-mail: chris.taylor@ebi.ac.uk

Correspondence to: Dawn Field2,3 e-mail: dfield@ceh.ac.uk

Correspondence to: Susanna-Assunta Sansone1,2 e-mail: sansone@ebi.ac.uk

The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project provides a resource for those exploring the range of extant minimum information checklists and fosters coordinated development of such checklists.

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