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The lack of data standards is a long-standing challenge across many scientific disciplines and industries, and as organizations attempt to turn their data into scientific insight, the proliferation of both current and legacy file formats poses a formidable challenge, comments Trish Meek, senior manager for product marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific: \u2018Without standardization, system integration has to be effected at the project level, or by vendors on a case-by-case level.\u2019<\/p>\n