The Genomic Standards Consortium

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PLoS Biol 9(6) , e1001088 (Jun 2011)

Author(s):

Field, D., Amaral-Zettler, L., Cochrane, G., Cole, J. R., Dawyndt, P., Garrity, G. M., Gilbert, J., Glockner, F. O., Hirschman, L., Karsch-Mizrachi, I., Klenk, H. P., Knight, R., Kottmann, R., Kyrpides, N., Meyer, F., San Gil, I., Sansone, S. A., Schriml, L. M., Sterk, P., Tatusova, T., Ussery, D. W., White, O., Wooley, J.

DOI:

10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088

Abstract:

A vast and rich body of information has grown up as a result of the world’s enthusiasm for ‘omics technologies. Finding ways to describe and make available this information that maximise its usefulness has become a major effort across the ‘omics world. At the heart of this effort is the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), an open-membership organization that drives community-based standardization activities, Here we provide a short history of the GSC, provide an overview of its range of current activities, and make a call for the scientific community to join forces to improve the quality and quantity of contextual information about our public collections of genomes, metagenomes, and marker gene sequences.

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