Nature Biotech paper – revised MIGS/MIMS checklist now available

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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Genomics and Society meeting, London, October 25/26th 2007

The GSC will present a poster at the Genomics and Society meeting, to be held in London on 25-26th October 2007.
The event will feature lectures, debates, workshops and exhibitions, on the past, present and future roles of genomics in society. More information on the meeting is available on the dedicated web site: http://www.genomicsandsociety.org/
If you plan [...]

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GSC BoF at ISMB/ECCB 2007 & the Environmental Ontology workshop

The Genomic Standards Consortium held a Birds of a Feather meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2007.
There were three presentations, and a discussion led by Robert Stevens. Presentation slides can be downloaded from the GSC wiki:
Presentation Slides
* Tatiana Tatusov slides
* Dawn Field slides
* Lynette Hirschman slides
We mostly discussed how to achieve wider community involvement. In particular we [...]

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eGenomics III – meeting report published

A meeting report summarizing the proceedings of the “eGenomics: Cataloguing our Complete Genome Collection III” workshop held September 11–13, 2006, at the National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS), Cambridge, United Kingdom, is now available:
download meeting report

Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 47304, 7 [...]

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Presentation slides from the 4th GSC Workshop

Presentation slides from the 4th GSC Workshop held on 6-8th June 2007 at NIEeS in Cambridge, are now available from the NIEeS archive

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James Watson’s genome in GenBank

James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix and developer of the Human Genome Project, was presented with the DNA sequence data from his personal genome at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston on May 31st 2007.
Photos of the event are on flickr: photos
From the press release:
The $1 million, two-month project is a collaboration of [...]

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4th GSC Workshop

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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First Genome Comparison of Plankton Species

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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Genomic Standards Consortium’s Genome Catalogue – latest release

The latest release of the Genomic Standards Consortium Genome Catalogue is now available:
http://gensc.sf.net
Features are described in the
GSC wiki

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Genomic Standards Consortium Publications

The current GSC publication list:
The MIGS manuscript: The Nature Biotech community consultation concluded April 19th, 2007. Decision by NBT pending.

GSC Meeting Reports

Dawn Field, George Garrity, Tanya Gray, Jeremy Selengut, Peter Sterk, Nick Thomson, Tatiana Tatusova, Guy Cochrane, Frank Oliver Glockner, Renzo Kottmann, Allyson L. Lister, Yoshio Tateno, and Robert Vaughan. (2007) Meeting [...]

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