Join workshop with Biomed Central Gigascience Team at BGI Hong Kong, and the ISA Team at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre organized a hackathon in Hong Kong, June 2014

In June 2014, also supported by a BBSRC UK-China partnering award (BB/J020265/1), the Biomed Central Gigascience Team at BGI Hong Kong, and the ISA Team at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre organized a hackathon in Hong Kong, with participation of young scientists and ‘-omics’ data producers from local university and the UK metabolomics standards community (EMBL-EBI, COSMOS and Birmingham Metabolomics Centre). The goal was to establish common standards and curation practices for omics data as well implement new ISA software (http://isatab.sourceforge.net) functionalities to facilitate deposition to MetaboLights repository (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/) and support feature requests from journal using ISA formats, such as GigaScience (http://www.gigasciencejournal.com) and Scientific Data (http://www.nature.com/sdata/). The fruitful interaction between the participants over the duration of the meeting resulted in the delivery of an ISA-Tab viewing component for web browsers (http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11084 for the code and http://isatab.sourceforge.net/examples.html), and the conversion of MetaboLights ISA-Tab content to RDF. Finally, efforts to deliver an API supporting the programmatic creation of an ISA-Tab document are well under way. Owing to the success on this first ISA-thon event, the same teams will be organizing a follow-up meeting. We will keep you posted and, if interested joining, do get in touch with us ([email protected]).

For more information see the blog below:

http://0-blogs.biomedcentral.com.brum.beds.ac.uk/gigablog/2014/08/22/ain...