NMR-STAR: comprehensive ontology for representing, archiving and exchanging data from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic experiments

J Biomol NMR. 2019 Feb;73(1-2):5-9. doi: 10.1007/s10858-018-0220-3. Epub 2018 Dec 22.

Abstract

The growth of the biological nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) field and the development of new experimental technology have mandated the revision and enlargement of the NMR-STAR ontology used to represent experiments, spectral and derived data, and supporting metadata. We present here a brief description of the NMR-STAR ontology and software tools for manipulating NMR-STAR data files, editing the files, extracting selected data, and creating data visualizations. Detailed information on these is accessible from the links provided.

Keywords: Archival data; Biomolecules; Data specification; Experiment description; Experimental conditions; NMR-STAR; Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Ontology; Python; R environment; Visualization of data.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biological Ontologies*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular*
  • Software
  • Vocabulary, Controlled