This document discusses various data standards that are important for data integration in bioinformatics. It describes different types of data standards including data formats, controlled vocabularies, minimum information guidelines, and common identifiers. It also provides examples of popular data integration approaches, standard formats and schemas, ontology resources, minimum information guidelines, identifier mapping services, web services, and workflow management systems. The goal of data standards is to facilitate data sharing, comparison, analysis and integration across different biological databases and resources.