Are we stuck in the standards?
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.
Ball
Catherine A
CA
Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA. ball@genome.stanford.edu
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