The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata

Konstantinos Liolios(Joint Genome Institute), I-Min A. Chen(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Konstantinos Mavromatis(Joint Genome Institute), Nektarios Tavernarakis(Joint Genome Institute), Philip Hugenholtz(Joint Genome Institute), Victor Markowitz(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Nikos C. Kyrpides(Joint Genome Institute)
Nucleic Acids Research
November 13, 2009
10.1093/nar/gkp848
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The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) is a comprehensive resource for centralized monitoring of genome and metagenome projects worldwide. Both complete and ongoing projects, along with their associated metadata, can be accessed in GOLD through precomputed tables and a search page. As of September 2009, GOLD contains information for more than 5800 sequencing projects, of which 1100 have been completed and their sequence data deposited in a public repository. GOLD continues to expand, moving toward the goal of providing the most comprehensive repository of metadata information related to the projects and their organisms/environments in accordance with the Minimum Information about a (Meta)Genome Sequence (MIGS/MIMS) specification. GOLD is available at: http://www.genomesonline.org and has a mirror site at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete, Greece, at: http://gold.imbb.forth.gr/

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