NORM-SYS - harmonizing standardization processes for model and data exchange in systems biology

Abstract

Modern life sciences are facing a rapidly increasing amount of data produced worldwide. The diversity and heterogeneity of the data calls for standardized formats for the data itself, its description and its context (the metadata), as well as for the processes during generation and processing of the data, the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The newly established project “NORM-SYS - Normalization and standardization for the exchange of models and data in systems biology research” aims at harmonizing standardization processes for model and data exchange in systems biology.