ISA Wizard – Facilitating metadata description: A plant data perspective

The ISA framework is well-established in Life Sciences domains as it has a generic and hierarchical structure, which allows describing experimental workflows in a uniform way. Nevertheless, the manual creation of ISA files requires a deep understanding of the ISA data model and knowledge about the specific data domain particularities, which makes it only suitable for data experts. Existing frameworks such as isa-tools or isa4j are powerful, but mainly made for developers and not for common data producers. We develop a user-friendly tool enabling scientists who are not experts for ISA to annotate their datasets and to export them in an ISA-compatible format.