The Genomic Standards Consortium
Dawn Field(UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Linda Amaral-Zettler(Marine Biological Laboratory), Guy Cochrane(Wellcome Trust), James R. Cole(Michigan United), Peter Dawyndt(Ghent University), George M Garrity(Michigan State University), Jack Gilbert(University of Chicago), Frank Oliver Glöckner(Max Planck Society), Lynette Hirschman(Mitre (United States)), Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi(National Institutes of Health), Hans‐Peter Klenk(Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures), Rob Knight(University of Colorado Boulder), Renzo Kottmann(Max Planck Society), Nikos C. Kyrpides(Joint Genome Institute), Folker Meyer(University of Chicago), Inigo San Gil(University of New Mexico), Susanna‐Assunta Sansone(University of Oxford), Lynn M. Schriml(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Peter Sterk(Wellcome Sanger Institute), Tatiana Tatusova(National Center for Biotechnology Information), David W. Ussery(Technical University of Denmark), Owen White(University of Maryland, Baltimore), John Wooley(University of California, San Diego)
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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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