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- Title
The Genomic Standards Consortium.
- Authors
Field, Dawn; Amaral-Zettler, Linda; Cochrane, Guy; Cole, James R; Dawyndt, Peter; Garrity, George M; Gilbert, Jack; Glöckner, Frank Oliver; Hirschman, Lynette; Karsch-Mizrachi, Ilene; Klenk, Hans-Peter; Knight, Rob; Kottmann, Renzo; Kyrpides, Nikos; Meyer, Folker; San Gil, Inigo; Sansone, Susanna-Assunta; Schriml, Lynn M; Sterk, Peter; Tatusova, Tatiana; Ussery, David W; White, Owen; Wooley, John
- 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.
- Publication
PLoS biology, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 6, pe1001088
- ISSN
1545-7885
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088