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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GSC Birds of a Feather meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2007

The Genomic Standards Consortium will be hosting a Birds of a Feather meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2007.
Date: Monday 23rd July 2007
Time: 12.15pm – 1.30pm
Room: see noticeboards
An open invitation :-
Meet members of the Genomic Standards Consortium
Learn about the activities of the Genomic Standards Consortium
Find out how to participate in the work of the Genomic Standards Consortium
Join in [...]

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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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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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MIGS/MIMS

Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence/ Minimum Information about a Metagenomic Sequence/Sample
Some pointers to resources to retrieve, visualize and explore the MIGS/MIMS specification:
Introduction to MIGS/MIMS

GSC Wiki page describing MIGS/MIMS
MIGS/MIMS XML Schema web service
The MIGS/MIMS XML schema can be downloaded via a URL-based web service. The web service API is described in [...]

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