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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The Genomic Standards Consortium
Author
Field, Dawn : Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Amaral-Zettler, Linda : Marine Biological Laboratory Cochrane, Guy : European Molecular Biology Laboratory Cole, James R. : Michigan State University Dawyndt, Peter : Ghent University Garrity, George M. : Michigan State University Gilbert, Jack : University of Chicago Glöckner, Frank Oliver : Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Hirschman, Lynette : The MITRE Corporation Karsch-Mizrachi, Ilene : National Library of Medicine Klenk, Hans-Peter : DSMZ Knight, Rob : University of Colorado Kottmann, Renzo : Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Kyrpides, Nikos : DOE Joint Genome Institute Meyer, Folker : University of Chicago Gil, Inigo San : University of New Mexico Sansone, Susanna-Assunta : University of Oxford Schriml, Lynn M. : University of Maryland
Funding Information
NERC, International Opportunities Fund Award, NE/3521773/1 NERC, International Opportunities Fund Award, NE/E007325/1 National Science Foundation, RCN4GSC, DBI-0840989
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