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 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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Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) 5th Workshop – slides

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

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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5th GSC Workshop

The 5th GSC Workshop is underway. The workshop will run from 12-14th December, and is hosted at the EBI in Hinxton. The GSC wiki will be updated during the workshop. For further information visit
http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/5th_GSC_Workshop

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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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