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4th GSC Workshop

Posted in Biology, CEH Oxford, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, NIEeS, bioinformatics, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, ontology, standards on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The 4th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop will be held next week, 6-8th June, 2007 at the National Institute for Environmental e-Science (NIEeS), Cambridge.
As at previous workshops there will be a mix of talks and discussion sessions, although this year the talks will be shorter and more focused on progress made towards GSC goals. There will [...]

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MIGS/MIMS

Posted in MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, bioinformatics, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, prefuse, standards, xml, xml schema on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence/ Minimum Information about a Metagenomic Sequence/Sample
Some pointers to resources to retrieve, visualize and explore the MIGS/MIMS specification:
Introduction to MIGS/MIMS

GSC Wiki page describing MIGS/MIMS
MIGS/MIMS XML Schema web service
The MIGS/MIMS XML schema can be downloaded via a URL-based web service. The web service API is described in [...]

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First Genome Comparison of Plankton Species

Posted in Biology, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, ostreococcus, plankton on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From a news release (April 30, 2007) describing research by an international team of scientists led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute:
The international team’s work, published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first comparison of the [...]

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