The Genomic Standards Consortium
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4658As published
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088Abstract
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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Article: 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, "The Genomic Standards Consortium", PLoS Biology 9 (2011): e1001088, DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4658The following license files are associated with this item:
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