ISA-Tab
The Investigation/Study/Assay (ISA) tab-delimited (TAB) format is a general purpose framework with which to collect and communicate complex metadata (i.e. sample characteristics, technologies used, type of measurements made) from 'omics-based' experiments employing a combination of technologies.
Created by core developers from the University of Oxford, ISA-TAB v1.0 was released in November 2008.
Used in
Documentation
Identifiers
- Internal MSC ID
- msc:m21
Tools
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The open source ISA metadata tracking tools facilitate ISA-TAB-compliant collection, curation, local management and reuse of datasets in an increasingly diverse set of life science domains.
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Known users
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Harvard Medical School LINCS Database
One of two research centers in the US creating libraries of signatures that describe how cells respond to perturbation, it uses the ISA-TAB standard to describe its data.
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A network of systems and projects that use the ISA-Tab file format, and/or are powered by components of the ISA software suite.
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A database for metabolomics experiments and derived information in ISA-Tab format.
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NEBC ISA Network BioInvestigationIndex
The NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre ISA Network's index of ISA-Tab and MIBBI-compliant environmental 'omics data.