Standard data formats facilitate the merging of study results and comply with the NCI's emphasis on caGRID conformity.
The work by Daniel McDonald et al.[ 3] in this issue is a technical note and presents a novel data format that facilitates the interoperability of bioinformatics tools.
Till such a global archival norm is achieved, it is suggested that the chemical community should maintain a standard and consistent representation of chemical structure data in the electronic supplementary files in native format or standard data format to facilitate the re-usability among the scientific community.
A common data format will facilitate the sharing and publication of comparative omics data and associated metadata and improve the interoperability of comparative omics software.
The standard microscopic slide format facilitates data capture with most automated array readers and, thus high sample throughput (>350 sample/h).
A common data format for sequences and results can facilitate data sharing, as well as integration of methods and tools from multiple research groups.
These include applications to view and validate the use of the schema, to enable graphical representation of interaction network, to convert between data formats and to facilitate the use of controlled vocabularies.
To do this, the user must first create a pedigree data file in the BOADICEA import/export digital data format (a simple plain text format designed to facilitate pedigree data exchange, described in Appendix A of the user guide [ 17]).
The models proposed here can facilitate the generation of a data format, which opens ways for better and clearer interpretation by both humans and machines.
In summary, virtual machines are a good solution to facilitate deployment for replication attempts, but are not a suitable data format for preservation.
