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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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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GenCat – Generic XML data catalogue – latest release

The latest release of GenCat is available to download from the project SourceForge SVN repository:
gencat release-1.1
GenCat uses the latest technology including Orbeon Forms, eXist, AJAX, XForms and XML Pipeline Language (XPL/XPROC), and provides a generic XML data catalogue with input forms generated on-the-fly from XML schema files, to capture schema-compliant XML instances.
GenCat has been implemented [...]

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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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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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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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