The Genomic Standards Consortium

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2011-06-21
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Field, Dawn
 Amaral-Zettler, Linda A.
 Cochrane, Guy R.
 Cole, James R.
 Dawyndt, Peter
 Garrity, George M.
 Gilbert, Jack A.
 Glockner, Frank Oliver
 Hirschman, Lynette
 Karsch-Mizrachi, Ilene
 Klenk, Hans-Peter
 Knight, Rob
 Kottmann, Renzo
 Kyrpides, Nikos C.
 Meyer, Folker
 San Gil, Inigo
 Sansone, Susanna-Assunta
 Schriml, Lynn M.
 Sterk, Peter
 Tatusova, Tatiana
 Ussery, David W.
 White, Owen
 Wooley, John
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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 Author(s), 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS Biology 9 (2011): e1001088, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088.
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PLoS Biology 9 (2011): e1001088
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