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Are we stuck in the standards?

Nature Biotechnology volume 24, pages 1374–1376 (2006)Cite this article

To avoid duplication of effort, slow adoption and inefficiency in development, those developing biological standards need to communicate more with each other, attract help from experts in the ontology/standards communities and keep focused on needs of users.

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Figure 1: Are biological researchers ready? Following the publication of MGED, MAGE-OM, the Molecular Interaction Format (MIF)9 and MO, a plethora of standards initiatives are currently under development.

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