In 2005, the Metabolomics Standards Initiative has been formed. An outline and general introduction is provided to inform
about the history, structure, working plan and intentions of this initiative. Comments on any of the suggested minimal reporting
standards are welcome to be sent to the open email list Msi-workgroups-feedback@lists.sourceforge.net
Keywords Standardization - Metabolomics - Metabonomics - Metabolite profiling - Databases - Ontology