Project

CHARME

Harmonising standardisation strategies to increase efficiency and competitiveness of European life-science research
Application Areas
Research Areas
Research Lines
Staff
WEBSITE

ITB Principal Investigator

Name

Harmonising standardisation strategies to increase efficiency and competitiveness of European life-science research

Acronym

CHARME

Location

Bari

Start Date

2016

End Date

2020

Funder

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), a funding organisation for research and innovation networks

Partners

Susanne Hollmann (Sb Science Management,Berlin, Germany); Erik Bongcam-Rudloff (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden); David Safranek (Masarykova Univerzita Veveří, Czechia); Osman Ugur Sezerman (Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey); Andreas Kremer (Information Technology For Translational Medicine, Luxembourg); Chris Evelo (University of Maastricht, Netherlands); Kristina Gruden (National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

The COST Action CHARME goal was to bridge and combine the fragmented areas of standard production for biological data to achieve a breakthrough in standardisation efforts. CHARME identified needs and gaps, teaming up with other initiatives and organisations to avoid duplication and overlap of standardisation activities. Only through a common, coordinated, long-term strategy, by active involvement of all stakeholders (from research, industry and policy), can standards be successfully assimilated into the daily workflow and thus increase the efficiency and competitiveness of European life-science research.
  • Hollmann S, Regierer B, Bechis J, Tobin L, D’Elia D. Ten simple rules on how to develop a stakeholder engagement plan. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Oct 13;18(10):e1010520. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010520. 
  • Hollmann S, Kremer A, Baebler S, Trefois C, Gruden C, Rudnicki WR, Tong W, Gruca A, Bongcam-Rudloff E, Evelo CT, Nechyporenko A, Frohme M, Safranek D, Regierer B, D’Elia D (2021) The need for standardisation in life science research – an approach to excellence and trust. F1000Research, 9:1398. DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.27500.2
  • Hollmann S, Frohme M, Endrullat C, Kremer A, D’Elia D, Regierer B, Nechyporenko A; Cost Action CA15110. Ten simple rules on how to write a standard operating procedure. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Sep 3;16(9):e1008095. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008095.
  • Susanne Hollmann, Babette Regierer, Domenica D’Elia, Kristina Gruden, Å pela Baebler, Marcus Frohme, Juliane Pfeil, Ugur Sezerman, Chris T Evelo, Friederike Ehrhart, Berthold Huppertz, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Christophe Trefois, Aleksandra Gruca, Deborah A. Duca, Gianni Colotti, Roxana Merino-Martinez, Christos Ouzounis, Oliver Hunewald, Feng He and Andreas Kremer (2018) Standardisation in Life-science Research – Making the Case for Harmonization to Improve Communication and Sharing of Data amongst Researchers. Web proceedings papers. Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science Series (CCIS), ISSN: 1865:0929, vol. 13:149-159
  • Susanne Hollmann, Teresa K. Attwood, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Deborah Duca, Domenica D’Elia, Christoph Endrullat, Marcus Frohme, Katrin Messerschmidt, Babette Regierer. Standardization and Quality Assurance in Life-Science Research – Crucially Needed or Unnecessary and Annoying Regulation?I n: Kalajdziski S., Ackovska N. (eds) ICT Innovations 2018. Engineering and Life Sciences. ICT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 940. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00825-3_2