Saturday, February 22, 2014

Minimum information about an experiment (MIAxE)

Minimum information about an experiment (MIAxE) is a publication standard to provide necessary information for other labs to be able to replicate the published experiment.

There are currently two well-known MIAxEs: Minimum information about qPCR experiment (MIAQE or MIQE) and minimum information about microarray experiment (MIAME).

I hope there will be other standards to facilitate other labs to validate published results in respected journals. There shouldn't be excuses as to why some experiments can't be replicated. Although biological system is unpredictable (sometimes) or variable (most of the time), these variabilities wouldn't be to huge to prevent reproducibility of results.

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