This document discusses principles and guidelines for reproducible and transparent research. It highlights the importance of rigorous statistical analysis, transparency in reporting standards used, replicates, statistics, randomizations, and inclusion/exclusion criteria. It provides examples of reporting standards like MIAME, which defines minimum information for microarray experiments, and the Gene Ontology, which provides consistent descriptions of genes. Data sharing is also discussed, noting it requires standards, data volume, and bandwidth. While useful standards and best practices exist, support from funders and journals could help further improve reproducibility.