title: Toward supportive data collection tools for plant metabolomics.
abstract: Over recent years, a number of initiatives have proposed standard reporting guidelines for functional genomics experiments. Associated with these are data models that may be used as the basis of the design of software tools that store and transmit experiment data in standard formats. Central to the success of such data handling tools is their usability. Successful data handling tools are expected to yield benefits in time saving and in quality assurance. Here, we describe the collection of datasets that conform to the recently proposed data model for plant metabolomics known as ArMet (architecture for metabolomics) and illustrate a number of approaches to robust data collection that have been developed in collaboration between software engineers and biologists. These examples also serve to validate ArMet from the data collection perspective by demonstrating that a range of software tools, supporting data recording and data upload to central databases, can be built using the data model as the basis of their design.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3DB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Baldeep
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kular
authors.forename: Trevor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hardy
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000378:metabolism; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D040901:Proteomics; D012984:Software