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 available via the GSC wiki at:
http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/MIGS_Checklist_Proofs
The MIGS/MIMS checklist document is available directly at:
http://gensc.sourceforge.net/docs/migsmims/
Nature Biotechnology Journal home page:
http://www.nature.com/nbt/index.html
Nature Biotechnology invited the scientific community to comment on the MIGS paper prior to publication. The community consultation page http://www.nature.com/nbt/consult/index.ht includes a link to the version of the MIGS paper made available for the community consultation:
[...] and published, the need for a standard set of information that should be reported has grown. The Genome Standards Consortium is working on that. The MIGS, or “Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence” specification is about to be [...]