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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).
About the [...]

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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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A 2nd special issue of OMICS to be developed by the GSC based on the 5th GSC Workshop

Posted in 16s, CAMERA, CEH Oxford, GCDML, GenBank, INSDC, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, bioinformatics, ebi, gcat, gencat, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, omics, science, standards, xml, xml schema on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Dawn Field and Susanna-Assunta Sansone guest edited a special issue of the journal OMICS on data standards as an output of the 2nd GSC workshop. There were 22 invited papers including 5 in the area of standardization of genomic data (See: Special_Issue_of_OMICS).
An overview of the issue and its goals is captured in the foreword: [...]

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Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) 5th Workshop – slides

Posted in CAMERA, GenBank, INSDC, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, bioinformatics, ebi, genome, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, metagenome, metagenomics, ontology, science, standards, xml, xml schema on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Further to the 5th Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) workshop, slides are available to download from the GSC wiki:
agenda and presentations

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Standardising the Description of 16S Sequences with MIGS/MIMS

Posted in 16s, MIGS, MIGS/MIMS, MIMS, bioinformatics, ebi, genomic standards consortium, genomics, gsc, standards on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

At the 5th Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) workshop held at the EBI on 12-14th December 2007, discussions led to a proposal to standardise the description of 16S sequences using the GSC community-led standard called Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence/ Metagenome Sample (MIGS/MIMS).
MIGS/MIMS defines descriptors that can assist in the capture of a rich set [...]

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