Special issue of OMICS from the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) has produced a second special issue of OMICS. The first, published in 2006, brought together 20 invited papers from a diversity of standards communities, many of which are still in the most read list of OMICS papers. This special issue focuses exclusively on the efforts of the GSC as [...]

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GSC vote: Genomic Rosetta Stone and LinkOut implementation

There is currently a vote open to GSC members, with a closing date of 2nd April 2008 23.00GMT.
The vote concerns the implementation of the Genomic Rosetta Stone utilising NCBI LinkOut. To state your preferred option please visit:
http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/Vote.001:_GRS_LinkOut_Implementation

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GSC FAQ available to give a quick overview of all GSC activities

The GSC FAQ is now available, and provides a quick overview of all GSC activities.

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Members of GSC working to complete example MIGS/MIMS report in ISA-Tab format

The RSBI working group has proposed an “Investigation Study Assay” paradigm for the modularization of minimum information checklists to accomodate reporting of multi-omic studies. This “ISA” construct is now also recognized by MIBBI.
The GSC’s MIGS checklist was specifically revised to also reflect the ISA structure to help in its modularization – some fields describe the [...]

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Open call for development of a short list of habitat terms: Habitat-Lite

Further information:
Habitat-Lite
The GSC is interested in the description of ’sample’ including the habitat. We are therefore exploring the creation of a limited list of terms for describing habitat.
Increasingly, short lists of habitat terms are being used to annotate databases and undertake a variety of analyses. These lists are continuously being developed a new because [...]

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GSC Special Issue of OMICS – Community Consultation

Dawn Field, Susanna-Assunta Sansone and George Garrity have been asked by the OMICS Editor and Chief Eugene Kolker to produce a special issue of OMICS based on the 5th GSC Workshop.
A community consultation has now started with the posting of the first paper on the GSC wiki. special issue of OMICS Wiki page Authors are [...]

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GSC helping to plan the first MIBBI workshop in April 2008 with funding from the UK’s BBSRC

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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GSC Poster at Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2008 : 14-17 January, Kyoto, Japan

A poster will be presented at the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2008 describing GenCat and the Genome Catalogue, two products of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). If you are attending APBC 2008 and are interested in the work of the GSC, please contact Tanya Gray at tgra at ceh.ac.uk.
About the GSC:
The Genomic Standards Consortium [...]

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

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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