What is ISO 21393 about?
ISO 21393 is applicable to the data exchange format that is designed to facilitate exchanging omics data around the world without forcing changes of any database schema.
ISO 21393 specifies the characteristics of OML from the following perspectives.
ISO 21393 gives guidelines for the specifications of the data exchange format, but this document excludes the database schema itself.
ISO 21393 is applicable to the molecular annotations including clinical concerns and relations with other omics concerns.
Who is ISO 21393 for?
ISO 21393 on Omics Markup Language (OML) is useful for:
- Biological Research laboratories
- Large scale machine design companies
- Medical drug medicine companies
Why should you use ISO 21393?
In this post genomic era, the management of health-related data is becoming increasingly important to both omics research and omics-based medicine. Informational approaches to the management of clinical, image and omics data are beginning to have as much worth as basic, bench top research. In the current electronic world, there are multiple different types of data for healthcare.
Besides, nowadays there are many kinds of omics data around the world awaiting effective utilization for human health. The development of data format and message standards to support the interchange of clinical omics data is necessary. Omics data includes omics sequence, sequence variation and other expression data, proteomics data, molecular network, etc. As an entry point, ISO 21393 focuses on the data exchange.
According to ISO 21393 guidelines, the main purpose of Omics Markup Language (OML) is to provide a standardized data exchange format for omics in human health.
The recent expansion in omics research has produced large quantities of data held in many databases with different formats. Standardization of data exchange is necessary for managing, analysing and utilizing these data. Considering that omics, especially transcriptomics, proteomics, signal omics and metabolomics, has significant meaning in molecular-based medicine and pharmacogenomics, the data exchange format is key to enhancing omics-based clinical research and omics-based medicine.
ISO 21393 defines the data format as well as the messages that are useful for interchanging and sharing this data globally.
ISO 21393 provides the needs and the requirements for OML and proposes the specification of OML for the international standardization based on the elucidated needs and the requirements.
