The Genomic Standards Consortium
Open Access
- 21 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 9 (6), e1001088
- https://doi.org/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.Keywords
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