Journal article
Balancing sufficiency and impact in reporting standards for mass spectrometry imaging experiments
GigaScience, Vol.7(10), giy102
2018
Abstract
Reproducibility, or a lack thereof, is an increasingly important topic across many research fields. A key aspect of reproducibility is accurate reporting of both experiments and the resulting data. Herein, we propose a reporting guideline for mass spectrometry imaging (MSI). Previous standards have laid out guidelines sufficient to guarantee a certain quality of reporting; however, they set a high bar and as a consequence can be exhaustive and broad, thus limiting uptake.
To help address this lack of uptake, we propose a reporting supplement—Minimum Information About a Mass Spectrometry Imaging Experiment (MIAMSIE)—and its abbreviated reporting standard version, MSIcheck. MIAMSIE is intended to improve author-driven reporting. It is intentionally not exhaustive, but is rather designed for extensibility and could therefore eventually become analogous to existing standards that aim to guarantee reporting quality. Conversely, its abbreviated form MSIcheck is intended as a diagnostic tool focused on key aspects in MSI reporting.
We discuss how existing standards influenced MIAMSIE/MSIcheck and how these new approaches could positively impact reporting quality, followed by test implementation of both standards to demonstrate their use. For MIAMSIE, we report on author reviews of four articles and a dataset. For MSIcheck, we show a snapshot review of a one-month subset of the MSI literature that indicated issues with data provision and the reporting of both data analysis steps and calibration settings for MS systems. Although our contribution is MSI specific, we believe the underlying approach could be considered as a general strategy for improving scientific reporting.
Details
- Title
- Balancing sufficiency and impact in reporting standards for mass spectrometry imaging experiments
- Authors/Creators
- O.J.R. Gustafsson (Author/Creator) - University of South AustraliaL.J. Winderbaum (Author/Creator) - University of South AustraliaM.R. Condina (Author/Creator) - University of South AustraliaB.A. Boughton (Author/Creator) - The University of MelbourneB.R. Hamilton (Author/Creator) - The University of QueenslandE.A.B. Undheim (Author/Creator) - The University of QueenslandM. Becker (Author/Creator) - Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)P. Hoffmann (Author/Creator) - University of South Australia
- Publication Details
- GigaScience, Vol.7(10), giy102
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Identifiers
- 991005542576907891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2018
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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