Linking big biomedical datasets to modular analysis with Portable Encapsulated Projects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organizing and annotating biological sample data is critical in data-intensive bioinformatics. Unfortunately, metadata formats from a data provider are often incompatible with requirements of a processing tool. There is no broadly accepted standard to organize metadata across biological projects and bioinformatics tools, restricting the portability and reusability of both annotated datasets and analysis software.

Results

To address this, we present the Portable Encapsulated Project (PEP) specification, a formal specification for biological sample metadata structure. The PEP specification accommodates typical features of data-intensive bioinformatics projects with many biological samples. In addition to standardization, the PEP specification provides descriptors an

SUBMITTER: Sheffield NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8673555 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature