ReviewPathogens and disease2014
Minimum information about a biofilm experiment (MIABiE): standards for reporting experiments and data on sessile microbial communities living at interfaces.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Measuring Antimicrobial Efficacy against Biofilms: a Meta-analysis.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2019Pooled it
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- Drug delivery strategies for antibiofilm therapy.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023Review
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- Non-destructive investigation of extracellular enzyme activities and kinetics in intact freshwater biofilms with mineral beads as carriers.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022Article
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- High Taxonomic Diversity in Ship Bilges Presents Challenges for Monitoring Microbial Corrosion and Opportunity To Utilize Community Functional Profiling.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- Interlaboratory study for the evaluation of three microtiter plate-based biofilm quantification methods.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Minimum information guideline for spectrophotometric and fluorometric methods to assess biofilm formation in microplates.Biofilm · 2020Article
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- Bio-Interactive Zwitterionic Dental Biomaterials for Improving Biofilm Resistance: Characteristics and Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Communication is the key: biofilms, quorum sensing, formation and prevention.Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) · 2019Review
- Testing Anti-Biofilm Polymeric Surfaces: Where to Start?International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- MIReAD, a minimum information standard for reporting arthropod abundance data.Scientific data · 2019Article
- Cold Plasmas for Biofilm Control: Opportunities and Challenges.Trends in biotechnology · 2018Review
- Towards standardized mechanical characterization of microbial biofilms: analysis and critical review.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2018Review
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Abstract
The minimum information about a biofilm experiment (MIABiE) initiative has arisen from the need to find an adequate and scientifically sound way to control the quality of the documentation accompanying the public deposition of biofilm-related data, particularly those obtained using high-throughput devices and techniques. Thereby, the MIABiE consortium has initiated the identification and organization of a set of modules containing the minimum information that needs to be reported to guarantee the interpretability and independent verification of experimental results and their integration with knowledge coming from other fields. MIABiE does not intend to propose specific standards on how biofilms experiments should be performed, because it is acknowledged that specific research questions require specific conditions which may deviate from any standardization. Instead, MIABiE presents guidelines about the data to be recorded and published in order for the procedure and results to be easily and unequivocally interpreted and reproduced. Overall, MIABiE opens up the discussion about a number of particular areas of interest and attempts to achieve a broad consensus about which biofilm data and metadata should be reported in scientific journals in a systematic, rigorous and understandable manner.
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