Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Towards an integrative and comprehensive standard for meta-omics data of collection objects (MOD-CO)

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner; Professor Dr. Gerhard Rambold; Dr. Dagmar Triebel
• Subject Area: Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology ; Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
• Term: from 2014 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 248069971

For the deposition of molecular sequence and array data, a number of standards exist. However, the elaboration of a comprehensive standard (schema, vocabularies) for the assignment of any kind of meta-omics data to reference samples in natural history and living culture collections is still missing. The aim of the project is to select and categorize – on the background of a wide spectrum of methods – relevant descriptors from a wide range of procedural analysis protocols to set up a standard under avoidance of structural redundancy. Furthermore, descriptors belonging to related data domains will be evaluated and – if relevant – allocated to the new conceptual schema. Based on existing concepts and standards integrative controlled vocabularies will be elaborated to describe the full spectrum of observation and measurement elements as well as the procedural steps in the frame of the metaomics characterization of environmental collection samples. The data names space schema with vocabularies will be exemplarily implemented in the Diversity Workbench and SILVA/megx.net management system and published in collaboration with the standardization committees of TDWG and GSC.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)