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 future implementation.
View it online for free here: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n5/full/nbt1360.html