To avoid duplication of effort, slow adoption and inefficiency in development, those developing biological standards need to communicate more with each other, attract help from experts in the ontology/standards communities and keep focused on needs of users.
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Ball, C. Are we stuck in the standards?. Nat Biotechnol 24, 1374–1376 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1106-1374
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