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GSC helping to plan the first MIBBI workshop in April 2008 with funding from the UK’s BBSRC

Posted in MIBBI, data standard, data standards, ebi, genomic standards consortium, gsc, xml schema on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The GSC is helping to plan the first workshop for the Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project, to be held on 2-3 April 2008, with funding from the UK research council, BBSRC.
The organizers are Chris Taylor (EBI), Susanna-Assunta Sansone (EBI) and Dawn Field (GSC, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology).
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GSC represented at MGED workshop on standardizing UHTS data, 17-18 March 2008

Posted in MGED, MIGS, UHTS, data standards, sequencing on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Microarray and Gene Expression (MGED) Society, is calling for an effort to develop standards for exchanging ultra-high throughput sequencing (UHTS) data.
Dawn Field will be attending the workshop to represent the GSC.
Guy Cochrane will be there to represent the EBI Short Read Trace Archive.
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, a member of the MGED Board, will also be there.
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Vineet K. Sharma joins the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

Posted in GCDML, RIKEN, data standard, gsc on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Further to discussions at the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2008 (APBC2008), Vineet K. Sharma is the newest member of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC).
Vineet’s work concerns computational analysis of metagenomic data and novel genome analysis. Vineet’s group sequences metagenomic samples from human and other organism’s metabiomes. Vineet will be involved in the further [...]

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GSC Poster at Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2008 : 14-17 January, Kyoto, Japan

Posted in APBC, CEH Oxford, Genome Catalogue, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, XForms, XSD, bioinformatics, exist, gcat, gencat, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, orbeon, standards, xml, xml schema on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A poster will be presented at the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2008 describing GenCat and the Genome Catalogue, two products of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). If you are attending APBC 2008 and are interested in the work of the GSC, please contact Tanya Gray at tgra at ceh.ac.uk.
About the GSC:
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Nature Biotech paper – revised MIGS/MIMS checklist now available

Posted in Biology, GenBank, George Garrity, INSDC, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, Nature Biotech, Nature Biotechnology, bioinformatics, ebi, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, standards on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

At the recent Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) workshop, George Garrity led discussions to review and produce a final version of the MIGS/MIMS checklist that will be included in the MIGS paper to be published in Nature Biotechnology in February 2008.
The revised version of the MIGS/MIMS checklist, together with comments recorded during the GSC workshop, are [...]

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