Data can also be exported for custom analyses (e.g., for algorithms that are very expensive to computer power and time) and local development of new analysis methods and in various defined formats for use in external postanalysis applications.
Indeed, as the TCGA and other collaborative initiatives of this scope evolve and expand, it is not reasonable to expect that they will conform to a narrowly defined format or structure for the duration of the initiative.
The scenario of Semantic Web deployment is that the information sources on the Web bring the metadata as semantic in a well-defined format for machine to operate, so that it is possible to support the integrated and uniform access to information sources and service as well as intelligent applications for information processing on the Web [10].
Pktgen consists of a packet generator, a receiver, and a protocol that defines the format for test packets.
This document defines the format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for implementation in World Wide Web browsers.
For example, it is easy to define a format for nucleotide data where gaps are coded as a fifth state or for binary data.
Standardization requirements were identified as two different but linked topics: the need to defined standard formats for every data type - which has been partially successfully managed by the several normalization efforts (e.g. MIAME), and the standardization of metadata.
It defines exchange formats for the most common data types: biological sequences, sequence alignments, sequence annotation and references to data, resources and vocabularies.
The HUPO-PSI (Human Proteome Organization Proteomics Standards Initiative) is a proteomics community organization defining standard formats for the data representation in proteomics to facilitate the data comparison, exchange and verification.
While we've determined that the NDI can be reduced as far as 5 items and still function adequately well, an alternative and arguably better approach would have been to re-word certain items or define new formatting for the scale and then re-test it in an independent sample.
