[open-science] New comunity member

Thu May 5 23:06:41 UTC 2011

Hello,

If I understand the issue correctly, you are looking for a way to
extend MIAME standard (Minimum Information About a Microarray
Experiment http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame.html ), so it
contains all information required for a correct data analysis. Or in
other words, you'd like to solve the issue of "how" to make data open,
not "if", as life scientists share data quite often. In that case, it
could be reasonable to contact people from FGED Society and work
directly with them.

"Standard" is the next holy grail after data become available. Open
Science helps indirectly by pushing towards data availability -
standards are developed by researchers trying to integrate data. I
don't know, however, if it could help directly, by coordinating
efforts of building common/reusable ontologies across different
domains/fields.

Best regards
PS

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, René Dreos <rene.dreos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Open-Science community,
>
> my name is René Dreos and I am a bioinformatician with a biology background
> interested in gene expression and genomes data analysis.
> For my projects, I often have to analyse and combine data generated in
> different labs (downloading them from Internet repositories like EBI or
> NCBI). You can imagine that although there are standard for data
> repositories it is quite difficult for me to collect all the information
> needed for a correct data analysis. This ultimately could lead to
> misinterpretation of the results or missing opportunities (and waste of
> time/money). I would really like to know what you think about this and how
> Open-Science could help in solving it. I know the problem is complex and, if
> you agree, I would like to bring my personal experience to this community
> and try to solve it.
>
> Kind regards
> r
>
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