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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.
A large-scale chemical genetic approach for systematically linking gene expression profiles with compounds and phenotypes offers promise for both basic and applied biomedical research.