Data Standards

LINCS Phase II Extended Metadata Standards

In LINCS Production Phase II, the LINCS Data Working Group (DWG) is currently developing extended metadata specifications describing LINCS reagents, assays and experiments. Annotations for the perturbagens (small molecules, siRNA, growth factors and other ligands), cells, and some elements of experimental metadata should be common between all LINCS Centers. This will facilitate development of data analysis, formatting, and visualization strategies by LINCS investigators, and also the development of databases and data repositories in which to store and share LINCS data.

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Reagent Definitions

Current Versions of Standards Released: 8-22-2017

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Previous Versions of Standards

Experiment Metadata Standards

The LINCS DWG will also develop standards to annotate the metadata that should be reported to describe LINCS assay protocols, data analysis strategies, and datasets. As much as possible we plan to make use of experimental metadata standards developed by other groups such as the ISA infrastructure project, the MIBBI efforts (e.g. MIACA, MIARE), and NCBI PubChem.

Current Versions of Standards Released: 8-13-2020

Download all experiment metadata standards as a .zip archive (30KB)