Meeting report: the fourth Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) workshop.
This meeting report summarizes the proceedings of the "eGenomics: Cataloguing our Complete Genome Collection IV" workshop held June 6-8, 2007, at the National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS), Cambridge, United Kingdom. This fourth workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) was a mix of short presentations, strategy discussions, and technical sessions. Speakers provided progress reports on the development of the "Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence" (MIGS) specification and the closely integrated "Minimum Information about a Metagenome Sequence" (MIMS) specification. The key outcome of the workshop was consensus on the next version of the MIGS/MIMS specification (v1.2). This drove further definition and restructuring of the MIGS/MIMS XML schema (syntax). With respect to semantics, a term vetting group was established to ensure that terms are properly defined and submitted to the appropriate ontology projects. Perhaps the single most important outcome of the workshop was a proposal to move beyond the concept of "minimum" to create a far richer XML schema that would define a "Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language" (GCDML) suitable for wider semantic integration across databases. GCDML will contain not only curated information (e.g., compliant with MIGS/MIMS), but also be extended to include a variety of data processing and calculations. Further information about the Genomic Standards Consortium and its range of activities can be found at http://gensc.org.
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Dawn
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Field
Frank Oliver
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Glöckner
George M
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Garrity
Tanya
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Gray
Peter
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Sterk
Guy
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Cochrane
Robert
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Vaughan
Eugene
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Kolker
Renzo
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Kottmann
Nikos
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Kyrpides
Sam
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Angiuoli
Peter
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Dawyndt
Robert
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Guralnick
Philip
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Goldstein
Neil
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Hall
Lynette
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Hirschman
Saul
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Kravitz
Allyson L
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Lister
Victor
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Markowitz
Nick
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Thomson
Trish
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Whetzel
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