javizca
commented
10 months ago It is too early to say, but I think that it will be difficult in practice to make the format mandatory. This needs to be checked with the EGA team but my understanding is that every Consortium producing sensitive data have their own metadata format (as it usually happens). And also, very few people curate the datasets appropriately, unless the EGA team is "paid" to do it. I had this conversation with EGA Barcelona just before Christmas, in the context of the grant application we are working in.
As a possible idea, what could be made mandatory in a first stage is some kind of file including the experimental design information, even if it is not the same one. Again, to be discussed in detail, and also to learn from the experiences of the EGA team.
ypriverol
We should have a prototype of an SDRF definition for metabolomics data. EPMA will work with SDRF for the standard metadata for samples for proteomics and metabolomics, and in principle, the file format MUST be required for each submission.
In addition, the format MUST support affinity proteomics data because EPMA will support this type of submission. The corresponding validator must be updated for both use cases.