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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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4658
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088
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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© 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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