Meeting Report from the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) Workshop 8

Nikos C. Kyrpides, Dawn Field, Peter Sterk, Renzo Kottmann, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Lynette Hirschman, George M. Garrity, Guy Cochrane, John Wooley

Abstract


This report summarizes the proceedings of the 8th meeting of the Genomic Standards Consortium held at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A. on September 9-11, 2009.  This three-day workshop marked the maturing of Genomic Standards Consortium from an informal gathering of researchers interested in developing standards in the field of genomic and metagenomics to an established community with a defined governance mechanism, its own open access journal, and a family of established standards for describing genomes, metagenomes and marker studies (i.e. ribosomal RNA gene surveys). There will be increased efforts within the GSC to reach out to the wider scientific community via a range of new projects. Further information about the GSC and its activities can be found at http://gensc.org/.

doi:10.4056/sigs.1022942


Keywords


genomics; metadata; metagenomics; bioinformatics

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Acknowledgements

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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