= Welcome to Observ-OM and Observ-TAB = [[BlogList(recent=5, max_size=250, format=float, heading=News, category=observ)]] The simple system to format and exchange observation data. == Background == Observ-OM is a model capture 'any' phenotype observation lead by [http://www.gen2phen.org/content/phenotype-modelling EU-GEN2PHEN]. Our mission mission: store individual and summary level observations in a uniform way to enable harmonization and interoperability of phenotypic and genotypic data across human genetics, model organisms and biobanks. Next to the object model we have an tabular exchange format Observ-TAB and user interfaces, search wizard, [http://www.ontocat.org ontology links] and Excel import/export. Status: data model finished and in process of publication for community review. == Applications == View and download Observ-OM applications: * the '''reference implementation''' which is available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-srv/pheno (Adamusiak, Parkinson, GEN2PHEN, Swertz) * the '''xQTL workbench''' which is available at http://www.xqtl.org (Arends, van der Velde) * the '''BiobankCatalog''' by the [http://www.nbic.nl/support/task-forces/biobanking/ NBIC Biobanking Task force] (Antonakaki, Enckevoort), [http://www.lifelines.org LifeLines] (Lops) and [http://www.bbmriwiki.nl BBMRI-NL] (Swertz). * the '''[http://www.animaldb.org AnimalDB]''' database for tracking animal observations (Roos) * the '''NGS workbench''' for tracking all around next generation sequencing experiment by [http://www.bbmriwiki.nl BBMRI-NL] (Dijkstra) == Source code == The most recent sourcecode of all these projects is available from SVN at http://www.molgenis.org/svn/molgenis_apps/trunk == Developers == Observ-OM and Observ-TAB were developed by: * [http://wiki.gcc.rug.nl UMC Groningen/GCC] (Swertz), * [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fg EBI Hinxton/FG] (Adamusiak, Parkinson), * [http://www.fimm.fi/ FIMM Helsinki] (Muilu) and * [http://www.le.ac.uk/ge/pages/staff/staff_pages/brookes.html U Leicester] (Thorisson, Gollapudi, Brookes) * [http://www.gen2phen.org/content/phenotype-modelling other members of EU-GEN2PHEN]. Applications using Observ-OM are developed by: * [http://www.nbic.nl/support/task-forces/biobanking/ NBIC Biobanking] for BiobankCatalog and SemanticSearch (Antonakaki, van Enckevort, Marshall, Swertz), * [http://www.lifelines.org LifeLines] for BiobankCatalog (Antonakaki, Lops, Swertz) * [http://www.bioshare.eu BioSHARE] for biobank data integration (Chao, Swertz) * [http://www.bbmriwiki.nl BBMRI-NL] for BiobankCatalog and NgsWorkbench (Antonakaki, Swertz) * [http://www.rug.nl/fwn/onderzoek/index U Groningen] for [http://www.animaldb.org AnimalDB] (Roos, Boerema, Swertz)