Number: 2001-068-1-700
Title: Properties and units in Medical Molecular Biology
Task Group
Chairman: Pedro
Soares de Araujo
Members: Ren�
Dybkaer, Urban Forsum,
Antonin Jabor, Wolf
R. K�lpmann, and Gunnar
Nordin
Completion Date: 2004 - project completed
Objective:
For two decades, the C-NPU has authored recommendations on how
to express and code examination results in various specialties of
Laboratory Medicine as published in PAC and the Silver Book.
This project will extend the principles to Medical Molecular Biology
furnishing a basis for unambiguous international communication.
> See former
Series on Properties and Units in
the Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Description:
Research on genomics, which led to the elucidation of the complete
structure of the human genome, has greatly increased the range of
properties available to medical prac-titioners to help them in diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of disease. The increase in variety of properties
examined is now such that the individual physician has insight in
or understanding of only a limited number of the properties of-fered
to him from the specialists in Molecular Biology. In the laboratory,
local terms (jargon) used in describing laboratory results may be
well understood among colleagues, but they are not appropriate for
communication with the outside world. Likewise, a laboratory and its
local community of users, such as hospital or community physicians,
may use a "local dialect" of the language of clinical laboratory sciences
that is well understood by all concerned, but when the communication
possibilities are wider, even transnational, risks of serious misunderstanding
arise. It is therefore essential to promote clear, unambiguous, meaningful
and fully informative communication. The purpose of this project is
to apply the IUPAC-IFCC recommended syntax structures for request
and report, providing formats and names of properties observed in
the domain of Medical Molecular Biology, to facilitate unequivocal
written or electronic communication between health care professionals.
Because no internationally accepted recommendations on the nomenclature
of properties in Molecular Biology have been published, one additional
purpose of this proj-ect is to advance the process of standardization
of the nomenclature in this field. The project conforms to the IUPAC
strategic goals 2 and 4 i.e. to promote standardized nomenclature,
symbols, terminology and methodology in the chemical sciences as well
as to facilitate the development of effective channels of communication
in international chemistry community.
Progress:
project completed - Part XVIII of the series on Properties
and units in the clinical laboratory sciences is published as IUPAC
Technical Report, Pure
Appl. Chem.
76(9), 1799-1807, 2004
Last Update: 24 September 2004