Silva runs contextual data survey for rRNA sequences

The Silva database is running a survey on which types of contextual data are most important for describing rRNA sequences.
The survey is quick to complete and can be found here: http://www.arb-silva.de/faqs/survey/
The results of this survey will be presented in a session on ribosomal RNA in the next GSC 6 meeting in Oct, 2007 at [...]

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RDP runs Habitat survey

The Ribosomal Database Project is running a user survey on habitat terms that are most important to users. Click on the RDP website and the quick survey will automatically launch in your browser: http://rdp.cme.msu.edu
The survey is part of the Habitat-Lite initiative within the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). Habitat-Lite is a small set of high-level [...]

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MIGS paper published in Nature Biotechnology

Thanks to the work of so many, the “Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence” (MIGS) perspective has finally appear in print in Nature Biotechnology. It contains the definitive version of the MIGS checklist as it applies to genome and metagenomes and provides the background for the development of the checklists and plans for its [...]

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