title: Metabolomics Standards Workshop and the development of international standards for reporting metabolomics experimental results.
abstract: Informatics standards and controlled vocabularies are essential for allowing information technology to help exchange, manage, interpret and compare large data collections. In a rapidly evolving field, the challenge is to work out how best to describe, but not prescribe, the use of these technologies and methods. A Metabolomics Standards Workshop was held by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring together multiple ongoing standards efforts in metabolomics with the NIH research community. The goals were to discuss metabolomics workflows (methods, technologies and data treatments) and the needs, challenges and potential approaches to developing a Metabolomics Standards Initiative that will help facilitate this rapidly growing field which has been a focus of the NIH roadmap effort. This report highlights specific aspects of what was presented and discussed at the 1st and 2nd August 2005 Metabolomics Standards Workshop.
authors.affiliation: Metabolomics and Informatics, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH). 6707 Democracy Blvd, Room 791, MSC 5460, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5460, USA. castlea@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Arthur L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Castle
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fiehn
authors.forename: Rima
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaddurah-Daouk
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lindon
mesh_terms: D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000592:standards*; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards; D038622:Internationality; D008660:Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000592:standards*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome