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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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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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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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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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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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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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