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Record W4407722686 · doi:10.1093/glycob/cwaf006

The minimum information required for a glycomics experiment (MIRAGE) project: improving the standards for reporting lectin microarray data

2025· article· en· W4407722686 on OpenAlexaff
Hiroaki Tateno, Lara K. Mahal, Ten Feizi, Carsten Kettner, James C. Paulson

Bibliographic record

VenueGlycobiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGlycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersJapan Society for the Promotion of ScienceJapan Agency for Medical Research and Development
KeywordsGlycomicsGlycobiologyWorkflowComputer scienceLectinGlycanDNA microarrayMicroarrayMicroarray analysis techniquesComputational biologyData scienceBioinformaticsDatabaseChemistryBiologyMolecular biology

Abstract

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The MIRAGE (Minimum Information Required for a Glycomics Experiment) project has been established by experts in glycobiology, glycoanalytics, and glycoinformatics under the auspieces of the Beilstein-Institut. The working group aims to develop guidelines for reporting results from various experiments and analyses conducted in structural and functional studies of glycans in the scientific literature. Previous guidelines have been established for glycomic analytics, including mass spectrometry and glycan microarrays. Lectin microarrays are used worldwide for glycan profiling of various biological samples, but there are often insufficient reports on information about experimental methods such as sample preparation and fluorescence labeling. Here, we propose guidelines specifically designed to improve the standards for reporting data from lectin microarray analyses. For each of the seven areas in the workflow of a lectin microarray experiment, we provide recommendations for the minimum information that should be included when reporting results. When adopted by the scientific community the MIRAGE lectin microarray guidelines are expected to enhance data interpretation, facilitate comparison of data between laboratories and encourage the deposition of lectin microarray data in international databases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.380
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.383
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.620
Threshold uncertainty score0.765

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.3800.383
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.006
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.005
Bibliometrics0.0180.012
Science and technology studies0.0050.007
Scholarly communication0.0170.015
Open science0.0150.015
Research integrity0.0130.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.015

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
DomainReporting
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations8
Published2025
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