FAIRsharing record for: ISO 20691 - Requirements for data formatting and description in the life sciences

This FAIRsharing record describes: ISO is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. The ISO Technical Committee ISO/TC 276 has a set of Working Groups (WG) working on standardization in the field of biotechnology processes; and WG5 focuses on Data Processing and Integration. One major ISO standard developed by this group is ISO 20691 Biotechnology — Requirements for data formatting and description in the life sciences. The document specifies requirements and rules for the consistent formatting and documentation of data and metadata in the life sciences and biotechnology, including biomedical research and non-human biological research and development; it covers manual or computational workflows. This Collection includes the standards detailed in the annexes of ISO 20691 as examples of common formats for life science data (annex A), as well as minimum reporting standards for data, models and metadata (annex B), and serves as a curated 'live' list to search and discover these standards, their use by repositories, as well as their evolution over time.