title: Are we stuck in the standards?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA. ball@genome.stanford.edu
authors.forename: Catherine A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ball
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D040901:Proteomics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled