Table 1 Initiatives and standards functional to the development of a comprehensive biobank
Acronym | Extended name | Domain | Introduction date | Aim | Conformance standard (Y/N) | URL / references |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MIABIS | Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing | Clinical | 2012 | Promoting a model of minimum information required to initiate collaborations between biobanks and enable the exchange of biological samples and data. | Yes (de facto) | |
HL7 | Health Level 7 | Electronic health information | 1987 | HL7 is a non-profit ANSI-accredited standards development organization that develops standards that provide for global health data interoperability. | Yes (consensus-based) | |
OMOP-CDM | Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership – Common Data Model | Health data | 2008 | Standardize the structure and content of observational data and to enable efficient analyses that can produce reliable evidence | No | |
CDISC | Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium | Clinical | 1997 | Standards to support the acquisition and submission and archive of clinical research data. | No | |
DICOM (SR, SEG, WG 26, CP-1705, CP-1764) | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine | Medical Imaging, Digital Pathology, Radiomics | 1993 | Enables the transmission, storing, retrieval, processing, and displaying of medical imaging information in a standardized format. | Yes (de jure) | [134] |
IBSI | Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative | Radiomics | 2016 | Standardizing the extraction of image biomarkers from acquired imaging for the purpose of high-throughput quantitative image analysis. | No | https://ibsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [92] |
RQS | Radiomics Quality Score | Radiomics | 2017 | Checklist to ensure quality of radiomic studies. | No | https://www.radiomics.world/rqs [16] |
OME | Open Microscopy Environment | Pathology | 2012 | Developing a data model for representation of image acquisition parameters, image experiment metadata, image analysis results. | No | https://www.openmicroscopy.org/ [146] |
Feature DB | Â | Radiomics/Patomics | 2017 | Building a comprehensive framework to support the generation, management and interrogation of large volumes of radiomic and pathomic feature sets. | No | [147] |
MixS (MIGS, MIMS, MIMARKS, MISAG, MIMAG, MIUViG) | Minimum Information about (X) any Sequence (Genome, Metagenome, Marker gene, Single Amplified Genome, Metagenome-Assembled Genome, Uncultivated Virus Genome) | NGS | 2005 | Defining a set of core descriptors for genomes, metagenomes and the samples thereof. | Yes (de facto) | |
MIAME, MINSEQE | Minimum Information About a (Microarray Experiment, a high-throughput sequencing experiment) | NGS | 2001 | Accelerating and supporting the effective sharing and reproducibility of functional genomics data. | Yes (de facto) | |
QIBA EIBALL | Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance European Imaging Biomarker Alliance | Medical Imaging, Biomarkers | 2007 2019 | Standardizing methods to create biomarkers that meet a claimed performance (accurate and reproducible). | No |