title: The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata.
abstract: The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) is a comprehensive resource for centralized monitoring of genome and metagenome projects worldwide. Both complete and ongoing projects, along with their associated metadata, can be accessed in GOLD through precomputed tables and a search page. As of September 2009, GOLD contains information for more than 5800 sequencing projects, of which 1100 have been completed and their sequence data deposited in a public repository. GOLD continues to expand, moving toward the goal of providing the most comprehensive repository of metadata information related to the projects and their organisms/environments in accordance with the Minimum Information about a (Meta)Genome Sequence (MIGS/MIMS) specification. GOLD is available at: http://www.genomesonline.org and has a mirror site at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete, Greece, at: http://gold.imbb.forth.gr/
authors.affiliation: Genome Biology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liolios
authors.forename: I-Min A
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mavromatis
authors.forename: Nektarios
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tavernarakis
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hugenholtz
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016678:Genome; D020745:Genome, Archaeal; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface