Following the MIAME (minimal information about microarray experiments) standards for reporting microarray data, various scientific communities are engaged in producing similar guidelines. Some of these standards papers are under consideration for publication in Nature Biotechnology. Because data-reporting standards are only as useful as the community finds them, we want to know what you think. The papers are freely available for at least a month, and your comments are welcome. New papers are added to the list on the Nature Biotechnology website as they become available, with a commenting facility for each one. The papers cover standards for ‘minimum information about a genome sequence’, proteomics, protein modification data, mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry informatics, gel electrophoresis, functional genomics, molecular interactions, and in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence experiments.

The Nature journals’ policy on data availability, including MIAME standards, is available at the author and referees’ website.