What is ISO/TR 3985 about?
Consensus and guidance are required and provided in ISO/TR 3985 for the biotech domain-independent annotation of biological data . ISO/TR 3985 lays out concepts, challenges, issues, and benefits that are relevant to developing International Standards for data sharing in life sciences research. ISO/TR 3985 provides and overview for specifying standards and best practices that enable data sharing. ISO/TR 3985 reviews best practices that are:
Respect the existing standardization efforts of life sciences research communities
Normalize key aspects of data description particularly at the level of the biology being studied (and shared) across the life sciences communities