Standards

Biobanks

• Cell Ontology ( http://cellontology.org/ , for cell types)

Patient registries

• ISO-3166-1, ISO-3166-2 and UN M.49 mashup (for geographical areas where the donors were born, stay or lived)
• ISO-8601 (Representation of dates and times)
• EFO ( http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/) and SNOMED-CT (http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/) for disease donors' description
• [Orphanet Ontology] (http://datahub.io/dataset/bioportal-ontoorpha)
• [Human phenotype ontology] (http://www.human-phenotype-ontology.org/)
• GRDR Common Data Elements
  • [RxNorm] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/overview.html)
  • [Loinc] (http://loinc.org/)
  • [SNOMED CT] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html)
  • [Universal medical device nomenclature] (https://www.ecri.org/Products/Pages/UMDNS.aspx)

Genomics

• GenCODE15/EnsEMBL70 genes and transcripts (for chromosomical coordinates and annotations)

Epigenomics

• IHEC metadata http://ihec-epigenomes.org/research/operating-procedures/

Metabolomics

Proteomics

Transcriptomics

Others

• ISO8601 (dates, ranges, etc...)