TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ćwiek-Kupczyńska, Hanna
AU  - Altmann, Thomas
AU  - Arend, Daniel
AU  - Arnaud, Elizabeth
AU  - Chen, Dijun
AU  - Cornut, Guillaume
AU  - Fiorani, Fabio
AU  - Frohmberg, Wojciech
AU  - Junker, Astrid
AU  - Klukas, Christian
AU  - Lange, Matthias
AU  - Mazurek, Cezary
AU  - Nafissi, Anahita
AU  - Neveu, Pascal
AU  - van Oeveren, Jan
AU  - Pommier, Cyril
AU  - Poorter, Hendrik
AU  - Rocca-Serra, Philippe
AU  - Sansone, Susanna-Assunta
AU  - Scholz, Uwe
AU  - van Schriek, Marco
AU  - Seren, Ümit
AU  - Usadel, Björn
AU  - Weise, Stephan
AU  - Kersey, Paul
AU  - Krajewski, Paweł
TI  - Measures for interoperability of phenotypic data: minimum information requirements and formatting
JO  - Plant methods
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SN  - 1746-4811
CY  - London
PB  - BioMed Central
M1  - FZJ-2016-05958
SP  - 44
PY  - 2016
AB  - BackgroundPlant phenotypic data shrouds a wealth of information which, when accurately analysed and linked to other data types, brings to light the knowledge about the mechanisms of life. As phenotyping is a field of research comprising manifold, diverse and time-consuming experiments, the findings can be fostered by reusing and combining existing datasets. Their correct interpretation, and thus replicability, comparability and interoperability, is possible provided that the collected observations are equipped with an adequate set of metadata. So far there have been no common standards governing phenotypic data description, which hampered data exchange and reuse.ResultsIn this paper we propose the guidelines for proper handling of the information about plant phenotyping experiments, in terms of both the recommended content of the description and its formatting. We provide a document called “Minimum Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment”, which specifies what information about each experiment should be given, and a Phenotyping Configuration for the ISA-Tab format, which allows to practically organise this information within a dataset. We provide examples of ISA-Tab-formatted phenotypic data, and a general description of a few systems where the recommendations have been implemented.ConclusionsAcceptance of the rules described in this paper by the plant phenotyping community will help to achieve findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000387501400001
C6  - pmid:27843484
DO  - DOI:10.1186/s13007-016-0144-4
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820689
ER  -