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We. acknowledge funding from the UK Natural Environmental Research Council's Environmental Bioinformatics Centre and the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/E025080/1) to D.F. and S.-A.S. to support C.F.T. and MIBBI. Work on MIFlowCyt is supported by the US National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (EB005034-01) and by Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract A140076 from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. R.R.B. is supported by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, by the International Society for the Advancement of Cytology and by grant funding from the US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health (R01EB005034). N.W.H. acknowledges the support of the European Union Framework VI project META-PHOR (Food-ST-2006-03622). F.G., P.L. and work on CARMEN are supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/E002331/1). K.T. acknowledges support from Science Foundation Ireland. Work on MIAME/Tox and MIAME/Nutr by P.R-S. is supported by the NuGO (NoE 503630) and CarcinoGenomics (PL 037712) European Union projects. Work on MIARE is supported by the eDIKT project. Opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US National Science Foundation or the US National Institutes of Health.

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D.F., S.-A.S. and C.F.T. conceived and designed the concept of MIBBI as synergistic project; D.F. and S.-A.S. raised the funds to support MIBBI activities, and C.F.T. performed the analysis presented in this paper; all authors discussed the results and implications and commented on the manuscript.

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Taylor, C., Field, D., Sansone, SA. et al. Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project. Nat Biotechnol 26, 889–896 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1411

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