Latest Specification

• Release Candidate 1, ISA-Tab v1 (Nov 2008)
  

ISA-Tab format has been developed with several international collaborators and in synergy with related, domain-specific effort, such as: MAGE-TAB, FuGE, PSI and biomedical formats such as SDTM, complementing and extending where necessary.

The decision on how to regulate its use (i.e. enforcing completion of mandatory fields or use of a controlled terminology) is beyond the scope of the ISA-Tab proposal, and are the focus of related effort, as as MIBBI and OBO Foundry. However, the ISAconfigurator allows tying in these standards requirements and managing the ISA-Tab fields displayed in the ISAcreator.

For further details, refer to the full specification documentation, view several examples files and read the first workshop report paper.

For more information about the ISA-Tab format, please contact Philippe Rocca-Serra.

Related Documents

• Rendering of FuGE documents in ISA-Tab format via XSL Transformation preliminary report
  
• Examples of FuGE and extension XML document are available from the examples page. Note that we soon post the XSL transformations.
  

Archives

• ISA-Tab v0.3: version June 2008
  This version is largely the result of aligning MAGE-Tab v1.1 and the previous ISA-Tab (v0.1) format, the following changes have been make:
  
  • change log between 0.2 and 0.3 draft specifications is available.
  • a document summarizing current practice and discussions related to Data File and Measurement Matrices formatting.
  • the content of the Reference file has been integrated into the Investigation file.
  • the headers of the Study and Assay files have also been integrated into the Investigation file.
  • the Investigation file has been further structured in sections.
  • all the latest MAGE-TAB changes have been taken in account.
  • Slide showing relation with MAGE-Tab files.
• ISA-Tab v0.2: version February 2008
• ISA-Tab v0.1: version November 2007