Abstract
The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, InCoB2010, which is the annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) has agreed to publish conference papers in compliance with the proposed Minimum Information about a Bioinformatics investigation (MIABi), proposed in June 2009. Authors of the conference supplements in BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics and Immunome Research have consented to cooperate in this process, which will include the procedures described herein, where appropriate, to ensure data and software persistence and perpetuity, database and resource re-instantiability and reproducibility of results, author and contributor identity disambiguation and MIABi-compliance. Wherever possible, datasets and databases will be submitted to depositories with standardized terminologies. As standards are evolving, this process is intended as a prelude to the 100 BioDatabases (BioDB100) initiative whereby APBioNet collaborators will contribute exemplar databases to demonstrate the feasibility of standards-compliance and participate in refining the process for peer-review of such publications and validation of scientific claims and standards compliance. This testbed represents another step in advancing standards-based processes in the bioinformatics community which is essential to the growing interoperability of biological data, information, knowledge and computational resources.
Highlights
Over the past decade the volume of bioinformatics publications has grown tremendously
In our effort to advance standards for bioinformatics activities, we have assembled a set of publishers, editors, reviewers, authors, contributors, database and resource administrators, programmers and scientists who are involved in our annual International Conference on Bioinformatics and the publication of our conference supplements, as an exemplar of how such a process for standardization can take place
Data and software repository Software, datasets and databases described in the International Conference on Bioinformatics, InCoB2010 published in this conference supplement issue are required to be deposited in distributed repositories which have sufficient collective guarantee of perpetuity
Summary
Over the past decade the volume of bioinformatics publications has grown tremendously. In our effort to advance standards for bioinformatics activities, we have assembled a set of publishers, editors, reviewers, authors, contributors, database and resource administrators, programmers and scientists who are involved in our annual International Conference on Bioinformatics and the publication of our conference supplements, as an exemplar of how such a process for standardization can take place.
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