Flow cytometry is routinely used in oceanography, but it is difficult to exchange data due to the lack of a consensual vocabulary. The groups observed by flow cytometry in the marine environment have been given numerous identifiers, the definition of which was not always shared by experts. In the paper Thyssen et al, 2022, an international consortium of 35 researchers from 28 different institutes worked to create a vocabulary and definition for 13 cytometric groups classically observed in the marine environment and belonging to autotrophic prokaryotes and eukaryotes and heterotrophic prokaryotes. This work, led by the MIO (Soumaya Lahbib (present at the MIO from 2015 to 2018), Gérald Grégori, Aude Barani, Michel Denis, Melilotus Thyssen), was initiated following the MIO's participation in the European SeaDataCloud and Jerico projects. The standardisation of vocabulary is an essential step towards sharing and opening up data, as required by the FAIR principles.
Thyssen, M., Grégori, G., Créach, V., Lahbib, S., Dugenne, M., Aardema, H.M., Artigas, L.-F., Huang, B., Barani, A., Beaugeard, L., Bellaaj-Zouari, A., Beran, A., Casotti, R., Del Amo, Y., Denis, M., Dubelaar, G.B.J., Endres, S., Haraguchi, L., Karlson, B., Lambert, C., Louchart, A., Marie, D., Moncoiffé, G., Pecqueur, D., Ribalet, F., Rijkeboer, M., Silovic, T., Silva, R., Marro, S., Sosik, H.M., Sourisseau, M., Tarran, G., Van Oostende, N., Zhao, L., Zheng, S., 2022. Interoperable vocabulary for marine microbial flow cytometry. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.975877