Workshop was organized by COSMOS and the Data Standards Task Group of the Metabolomics Society during the annual Metabolomics Society conference in Tsuruoka June 2014

A workshop was organized by COSMOS and the Data Standards Task Group of the Metabolomics Society during the annual Metabolomics Society conference in June held at Tsuruoka, Japan. Link: http://metabolomics2014.org/index.php/program

Reza Salek (EMBL-EBI, UK) presented the current status and on-going developments worldwide on data standards, particularly the role of COSMOS (http://www.cosmos-fp7.eu). Steffen Neumann (Leibniz IPB, Halle Germany) gave an overview of data exchange formats in MS and how to get the users and instrument vendors involved. Philippe Rocca-Serra (Oxford e-Research Centre, UK) presented ISA-Tools for capturing metabolomics metadata, semantics and usage of RDF in metabolomics. In the second session, Scott Edmunds and Rob Davidson (GigaScience, Hong Kong) presented the Gigajournal point of view on publishing metabolomics data and workflows with the GigaScience, GigaDB and GigaGalaxy platforms. Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Nature Scientific Data) introduced NScD’s role in placing importance on data and the role that the NScD is playing on putting value in your datasets. The last two presentations were by Reza Salek and Padma Maruvada (NIH/NIDDK, USA) giving an overview of metabolomics repositories, MetaboLights and NIH Metabolomics WorkBench. We had plenty of interested discussion points on usage and promotion of standard, metabolomics data deposition and dissemination.