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Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 593-605 (August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrg1922

Standards for systems biology

Alvis Brazma1, Maria Krestyaninova1 & Ugis Sarkans1  About the authors

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High-throughput technologies are generating large amounts of complex data that have to be stored in databases, communicated to various data analysis tools and interpreted by scientists. Data representation and communication standards are needed to implement these steps efficiently. Here we give a classification of various standards related to systems biology and discuss various aspects of standardization in life sciences in general. Why are some standards more successful than others, what are the prerequisites for a standard to succeed and what are the possible pitfalls?

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  1. European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK.

Correspondence to: Alvis Brazma1 Email: brazma@ebi.ac.uk

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