ISA-Tab Examples


Several examples of ISA-Tab (v1.0) formatted metadata files are available in the table below. Other examples can be downloaded from the BioInvestigation Index public instance running at EBI.

Study Title Assay Type(s) Example file(s) Source Creation process Contributors
The influence of pharmacogenetics on fatty liver disease in the wistar and kyoto rats
gene expression profiling using DNA microarray
metabolite profiling using NMR spectroscopy
Griffin-et-al-PMID172039.zip pubmed logo 17203948 ISACreator/manual creation  
representation in ISA-TAB Format of an Investigations (mock-up), which includes a study by Gauguier et al, 2007 17618414, in addition to the study by Griffin et al,2007:
gene expression profiling using DNA microarray
metabolite profiling using NMR spectroscopy
Inv_Griffin-PMID17203948-Gauguier-PMID17618414.zip pubmed logo 17203948 ISACreator/manual creation  
Metatranscriptomes of phytoplankton blooms from an ocean acidification mesocosm experiment
gene expression profiling using DNA sequencing
genomic sequence identification using DNA sequencing
Gilbert-et-al-PMID18725995.zip
SRA000266-submission-Gilbert-454-GS-FLX.xml
pubmed logo 18725995
sra logo SRA XML - accession number SRA000266
ISACreator/manual creation
xsl transformation (!#)
Jack Gilbert and Dawn Field
Cell based assay study cell function profiling using cell assays Wiemann_SupplFile4.xml MIACA/ CA-ML xsl transformation(!#) file supplied by Stefan Wiemann, DKFZ, Acknowldgement to: Stephanie Bechtel and Christian Schmidt (data generation), Heiko Rosenfelder and David Zhang (bioinformatics).
FuGE exemplar document none Fuge-AJ.xml FuGE-ML xsl transformation(!#) file supplied by Andy Jones for initial evaluation.
Microarray based study gene expression profiling using DNA sequencing Amanda Microarray Data Fuge.xml FuGE-ML xsl transformation(!#) file supplied by Allyson Lister, CISBAN SYMBA. Acknowldgement to: Amanda Greenall and David Lydall. .
Differential Gel Electrophoresis based study protein identification using gel electrophoresis DIGEexample_from_amersham_v4.xml Gel-ML xsl transformation(!#) file supplied by Frank Gibson and Andy Jones.
Flow cytometry based study cell sorting using flow cytometry Donor_HSC_Contribution.xml FuGEFlow-ML xsl transformation(!#) file supplied by Joseph Splindlen.Acknowldgement to: Maura Gasparetto for providing the experimental description according to MIFlowCyt, Yu Qian, Olga Tchuvatkina, Josef Spidlen, Peter Wilkinson, Richard Scheuermann, Ryan Brinkman, for FuGEFlow Josef Spidlen for encoding the experimental description into FlowML. This is work was supported by the NIH under grant EB5034.


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