Minimum information about a biofilm experiment ( MIABiE): standards for reporting experiments and data on sessile microbial communities living at interfaces

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Anália Lourenço (Author) Other; Tom Coenye (Author) Other; Darla M. Goeres (Author) Other; Gianfranco Donelli (Author) Other; Andreia S. Azevedo (Author) Other; Howard Ceri (Author) Other; Filipa L. Coelho (Author) Other; Hans Curt Flemming (Author) Other; Talis Juhna (Author) Other; Susana P. Lopes (Author) Other; Rosário Oliveira (Author) Other; Antonio Oliver (Author) Other; Mark E. Shirtliff (Author) Other; Ana M. Sousa (Author) Other; Paul Stoodley (Author) Other; Maria Olívia Pereira (Author) Other; Nuno F. Azevedo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Pathogens and Disease

Vol. 70 No. 3

Pages: 250-256

ISSN: 2049-632X

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Scopus - 31 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Basic medicine

Associated Projects

DNA mimics - Desenvolvimento e aplicação de mímicos de DNA para a rápida identificação de microrganismos patogénicos

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-009-AQS

DOI: 10.1111/2049-632x.12146

Abstract (EN): The minimum information about a biofilm experiment (MIABiE) initiative has arisen from the need to find an adequate and scientifically sound way to control the quality of the documentation accompanying the public deposition of biofilm-related data, particularly those obtained using high-throughput devices and techniques. Thereby, the MIABiE consortium has initiated the identification and organization of a set of modules containing the minimum information that needs to be reported to guarantee the interpretability and independent verification of experimental results and their integration with knowledge coming from other fields. MIABiE does not intend to propose specific standards on how biofilms experiments should be performed, because it is acknowledged that specific research questions require specific conditions which may deviate from any standardization. Instead, MIABiE presents guidelines about the data to be recorded and published in order for the procedure and results to be easily and unequivocally interpreted and reproduced. Overall, MIABiE opens up the discussion about a number of particular areas of interest and attempts to achieve a broad consensus about which biofilm data and metadata should be reported in scientific journals in a systematic, rigorous and understandable manner.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7