3.5.3 Minimum reporting guidelines
A. Background & Definitions
The purpose of the different Minimum Information (MI) guidelines is to ensure the data generated using the respective method or technique can be easily verified, analyzed and interpreted by the wider scientific community. Ultimately, MI standards should ensure that information generated by using certain methods should be structured and organised in a way that facilitates data sharing, the verification of results and the re-use of data.
B. Guidance & Expectations
The concept of ‘Minimum Information’ standards was first introduced in 2001 by developing and publishing the MIAME (Minimum Information’ about a microarray experiment) guidelines. Here the authors provided detailed guidance on what information, specifications and meta data about an microarray experiment is crucial and important to be reported - so that any data sets generated can be used to their full potential and readers obtain a comprehensive understanding of the published experiment.
C. Resources
An overview of developed MI guidelines is provided by the FAIRsharing.org website (https://fairsharing.org/) with the possibility to search for specific techniques or methods of interest.
- Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment (MIAPE)
- Minimum Information About a Bioinformatics investigation (MIABi)
- Minimum Information About a RNAi Experiment (MIARE)
- Minimum Information about Flow Cytometry (MIFlowCyt)
- Minimum Information about a Protein Affinity Reagent (MIAPAR)
- Minimum Information about Tissue Imaging (MITI)
- Minimum Information About Cell Migration Experiment (MIACME)
- Minimum Information about a Neuroscience Investigation (MINI)
- Minimum Information Standard for Engineered Organism Experiments (MIEO)
- Minimum Information about Peptide Array Experiment (MIAPepAE)
- Minimum Information Specification For In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiments (MISFISHIE)
- Minimum Information About a Spinal Cord Injury experiment (MIASCI)
- Minimum Information for Reporting Next Generation Sequencing Genotyping (MIRING)
- Minimum Information Required for A Glycomics Experiment - Glycan Microarray Analysis (MIRAGE Glycan Microarray Analysis)
- Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE)
- Minimum Information Required for A Glycomics Experiment - Mass Spectrometric Analysis (MIRAGE MS)
- Minimum Information Required for a Drug Metabolism Enzymes and Transporters Experiment (MIDE)
- Minimum Information About a Genotyping Experiment (MIGen)
- Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment (MIASE)
- Minimum Information About a Bioactive Entity (MIABE)
- Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME)
- Minimum Information about a Stem Cell Experiment (MISCE)
- Minimum Information about a Molecular Interaction Experiment (MIMIx)
- Minimum Information about Animal Toxicology Experiments In Vivo (MIATE/invivo)
- Minimum Information Model for Dielectric Measurements of Biological Tissues (MINDER)
- Minimal Information About a Cellular Assay (MIACA)
- Minimal Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA)
- Minimal Information about a high throughput SEQuencing Experiment (MINSEQE)
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