Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences

• DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.10365
• Publication Date: 2023-04-19T05:53:11Z
• Authors: Rudolf Wittner; Petr Holub; Cecilia Mascia; Francesca Frexia; Heimo Müller; Markus Plass; Clare Allocca; Fay Betsou; Tony Burdett; Ibon Cancio; Adriane Chapman; Martin Chapman; Mélanie Courtot; Vasa Curcin; Johann Eder; Mark Elliot; Katrina Exter; Carole Goble; Martin Golebiewski; Bron Kisler; Andreas Kremer; Simone Leo; Sheng Lin‐Gibson; Anna Marsano; Marco Mattavelli; Josh Moore; Hiroki Nakae; Isabelle Perseil; Ayat Salman; James Sluka; Stian Soiland‐Reyes; Caterina Strambio...; Michael Sussman; Jason R. Swedlow; Kurt Zatloukal; Jörg Geiger
• Keywords: Traceability; Data Sharing

Open and practical exchange, dissemination, reuse of specimens data have become a fundamental requirement for life sciences research. The quality the obtained thus findings knowledge derived is significantly influenced by samples, experimental methods, analysis. Therefore, comprehensive precise documentation pre-analytical conditions, analytical procedures, processing are essential to be able assess validity research results. With increasing importance reuse, sharing procedures required that enable cross-organizational documentation, traceability, non-repudiation. At present, this information on provenance samples mostly either sparse, incomplete, or incoherent. Since there no uniform framework, usually only provided within organization not interoperably. same time, collection biological environmental increasingly require definition benefit compliance regulatory requirements rather than consideration pure scientific needs. In publication, we present an ongoing standardization effort provide trustworthy machine-actionable lineage specimens. We would like invite experts from biotechnology biomedical fields further contribute standard.