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. 2011 Jun;9(6):e1001088.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001088. Epub 2011 Jun 21.

The Genomic Standards Consortium

Dawn Field  1 , Linda Amaral-Zettler, Guy Cochrane, James R Cole, Peter Dawyndt, George M Garrity, Jack Gilbert, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Lynette Hirschman, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Hans-Peter Klenk, Rob Knight, Renzo Kottmann, Nikos Kyrpides, Folker Meyer, Inigo San Gil, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Lynn M Schriml, Peter Sterk, Tatiana Tatusova, David W Ussery, Owen White, John Wooley
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The Genomic Standards Consortium

Dawn Field et al. PLoS Biol. 2011 Jun.

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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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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