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.

Summary Edit

Standard Website
http://isatab.sourceforge.net/format.html
Specification
http://isatab.sourceforge.net/docs/ISA-TAB_release-candidate-1_v1.0_24nov08.pdf
Mappings
MAGE-TAB
Subjects
Engineering
Life Sciences
Disciplines
Biochemistry
Bioengineering
Biomaterials
Biomechanics
Cell Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Metabolic biochemistry
Molecular biology

Extensions Add

ISA-TAB Nano Edit

An extension of ISA-TAB specifying the format for representing and sharing information about nanomaterials, small molecules and biological specimens along with their assay characterization data.

isaconfig-diXa Edit
SNRNASM ISA-Tab Edit

An ISA-Tab-based standard for reporting the results of single nucleotide resolution nucleic acid structure mapping experiments.

Tools Add

ISA Software Suite Edit

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.

Use Cases Add

Harvard Medical School LINCS Database Edit

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.

ISA Commons Edit

A network of systems and projects that use the ISA-Tab file format, and/or are powered by components of the ISA software suite.

MetaboLights Edit

A database for metabolomics experiments and derived information in ISA-Tab format.

NEBC ISA Network BioInvestigationIndex Edit

The NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre ISA Network's index of ISA-Tab and MIBBI-compliant environmental 'omics data.