title: The need for standards, not guidelines, in biological data reporting and sharing.
abstract: Implementation of the Minimal information about a microarray experiment document provides several lessons for similar ongoing initiatives in other fields.
authors.affiliation: Toxicogenomic Informatics and Solutions, LLC, PO Box 27482, Lansing, Michigan 48909, USA. BURGOONL@msu.edu
authors.forename: Lyle D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Burgoon
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000592:standards*