| 2009 | June 1 | Genome web article reporting on MIQE and RDML. | |
| March 27 | 'The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments' is published by Bustin et al. in Clinical Chemistry | ||
|   | March 11 | Steve Lefever presents RDML at the 4th International qPCR Symposium (Freising, Germany) | |
| February 17 | 'RDML: structured language and reporting guidelines for real-time quantitative PCR data' is published by Lefever, Hellemans et al. in Nucleic Acids Reseach | ||
| January 31 | Release of RDML Recommendation v1.0 | ||
| 2008 | December 3 | Stephen Bustin's paper in European Pharmaceutical Review has a great figure depicting RDML as an essential component of a reliable qPCR assay [high quality figure] | |
| October 6 | Filip Pattyn presents RDML at the 1st Benelux qPCR Symposium, Ghent, Belgium | ||
| August 7 | The MIBBI project paper is published in Nature Biotechnology. MIqPCR is one of the 21 official Minimal Information checklists | ||
| May 14 | Professor Stephen Bustin (London, UK) puts RDML and MIBBI as part of the solution for the current lack of qPCR Assay Quality assessment | ||
| April 20-23 | Jo Vandesompele presents RDML at the CHI’s 4th Annual Quantitative PCR: Getting the Basics Right, San Diego, USA | ||
| April 1 | A new standard for qPCR data : RDML (European Biotechnology News, Issue 03-04/2008) | ||
| April 1 | PCR-Standardisierung : RDML - neuer Standard für qPCR-Daten (Laborwelt, Nr.2/2008, 9. Jahrgang) | ||
| April 1 | RDML joins MIBBI | ||
| January 1 | Birth of the RDML consortium and new website | ||
| 2007 | March 26-30 | Jan Hellemans moderates the RDML discussion at the 3rd International qPCR Symposium, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany | |
| 2005 | October 1 | RDML website and discussion forum online | |
| September 5-7 | Jan Hellemans presents RDML at the 2nd International qPCR Symposium, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany | ||
| July 1 | Jan Hellemans and Jo Vandesompele start the RDML initiative | ||