ISA API: An open platform for interoperable life science experimental metadata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Investigation/Study/Assay (ISA) Metadata Framework is an established and widely used set of open source community specifications and software tools for enabling discovery, exchange, and publication of metadata from experiments in the life sciences. The original ISA software suite provided a set of user-facing Java tools for creating and manipulating the information structured in ISA-Tab-a now widely used tabular format. To make the ISA framework more accessible to machines and enable programmatic manipulation of experiment metadata, the JSON serialization ISA-JSON was developed.

Results

In this work, we present the ISA API, a Python library for the creation, editing, parsing, and validating of ISA-Tab and ISA-JSON formats by using a common data model engineere

SUBMITTER: Johnson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444265 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature