Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI)

Background information
Throughout the biological and biomedical sciences prescriptive checklists specifying the key information to include when reporting experimental results are beginning to find favour with experimentalists, analysts, publishers and funders alike. However, such ‘minimum information’ (MI) checklists are usually developed independently, from within particular biologically- or technologically-delineated domains. Consequently, the full range of checklists can be difficult to establish without intensive searching, and tracking their evolution is non-trivial; they are also inevitably partially-redundant one against another, and where they overlap arbitrary decisions on wording and substructuring make integration difficult. This presents significant difficulties for the users of checklists; for example, in the area of systems biology, where data from multiple biological domains and technology platforms are routinely combined. We offer a common portal to such MI checklists; to act as a ‘one-stop shop’ for those exploring the range of extant projects, foster collaborative development and ultimately promote gradual integration.

Resources

 * MBBI portal
 * CIMR 	Core Information for Metabolomics Reporting, external link
 * IMIAGE 	Immport's Minimum Information About a Genotyping Experiment, external link
 * MIACA 	Minimal Information About a Cellular Assay, external link
 * MIAME 	Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment, external link
 * MIAME/Env MIAME / Environmental transcriptomic experiment, external link
 * MIAME/Nutr 	MIAME / Nutrigenomics, external link
 * MIAME/Plant 	MIAME / Plant transcriptomics, external link
 * MIAME/Tox 	MIAME / Toxicogenomics, external link
 * MIAPA 	Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis, external link
 * MIAPE 	Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment, external link
 * MIARE 	Minimum Information About a RNAi Experiment, external link
 * MIFlowCyt Minimum Information for a Flow Cytometry Experiment, external link
 * MIGS 	Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence, external link
 * MIMIX 	Minimum Information about a Molecular Interaction Experiment, external link
 * MIMPP 	Minimal Information for Mouse Phenotyping Procedures, external link
 * MIQAS 	Minimal Information for QTLs and Association Studies, external link
 * MIRIAM 	Minimal Information Required In the Annotation of biochemical Models, external link
 * MISFISHIE Minimum Information Specification For In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiments, external link
 * STRENDA Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data, external link