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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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James Watson’s genome in GenBank

Posted in 454 Life Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Biology, GenBank, genome, genomics, human genome project, james watson on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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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