GSC 8 Outcomes

The GSC 8 meeting was hosted at the Joint Genome Institute Sept 9-11, 2009. It was preceded by an ISA-Tab-GCDML workshop. The agenda can be see here on the GSC 8 meeting homepage.
The first report to appear on the meeting is in Bioinform:
The JGI is also producing a article and will post [...]

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Standards in Genomic Sciences Journal from the GSC

The GSC is launching an open-access online journal to support its mission. The “Standards in Genomic Sciences” (SIGS) journal will provide a forum for publishing genome and metagenome notes structured according to the GSC’s MIGS/MIMS specification. It will also support the community by providing a venue for the publication of a wide range [...]

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MIGS-Compliant report published as Supplementary Table

Another MIGS-compliant report has been published as a Supplementary an article – see Reference 137 and the table S1 listed in the Materials and Methods.
“Adaptations to Submarine Hydrothermal Environments Exemplified by the Genome of Nautilia profundicola”
See the full paper here.

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GSC to host a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting at ISMB 2009 in Sweden called “M3″

The GSC proposal to host a SIG this year at ISMB 2009 in Sweden has been successful. Further details will follow soon but the one day meeting will be held Saturday June 27th before the start of the main ISMB / ECCB 2009 meeting in Stockholm.
The official title of the SIG is “Metagenomics, Metadata [...]

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GSC projects webpage launched in Wiki

Information about all GSC projects is now being collated on a single page in the GSC Wiki. Please log in during the workshop and help update pages relevant to you and your project(s). The GSC core projects are MIGS/MIMS, the Genome Catalogue, GCDML, GRS, Habitat-Lite and the GSC eJournal and SOP central repository. In [...]

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GCDML and GSC 6 workshops start this week (Oct 13, 2008)

We are looking forward to seeing everyone this week starting with the GCDML technical workshop participants. We hope to get a lot done on Monday and Tuesday on GCDML before the main workshop starts.
The agendas for both meetings are now available on the web and have been ‘wikified’ to add live links and other [...]

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Putting Molecules on the Map

At the heart of the MIGS specification is a call for all genomes and metagenomes to be reported with geographic location (lat/long). We were therefore very pleased to see a Nature Editorial calling for ALL biological samples to be tagged with lat/long. The GSC responded with a Nature Correspondence to underscore our collaborative interest [...]

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Silva runs contextual data survey for rRNA sequences

The Silva database is running a survey on which types of contextual data are most important for describing rRNA sequences.
The survey is quick to complete and can be found here: http://www.arb-silva.de/faqs/survey/
The results of this survey will be presented in a session on ribosomal RNA in the next GSC 6 meeting in Oct, 2007 at [...]

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RDP runs Habitat survey

The Ribosomal Database Project is running a user survey on habitat terms that are most important to users. Click on the RDP website and the quick survey will automatically launch in your browser: http://rdp.cme.msu.edu
The survey is part of the Habitat-Lite initiative within the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). Habitat-Lite is a small set of high-level [...]

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MIGS paper published in Nature Biotechnology

Thanks to the work of so many, the “Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence” (MIGS) perspective has finally appear in print in Nature Biotechnology. It contains the definitive version of the MIGS checklist as it applies to genome and metagenomes and provides the background for the development of the checklists and plans for its [...]

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