title: Plant specimen contextual data consensus.
abstract: The Compliance and Interoperability Working Group of the Genomic Standards Consortium facilitates the establishment of a community of experts and the development of recommendations to describe genomic data and associated information. Here we present our ongoing conation to harmonise the reporting of contextual plant specimen data associated with genomics and functional genomics. This commentary summarises the current state of our plant sample contextual data harmonisation efforts to engage a broad plant science community.
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Petra Ten
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Hoopen
authors.affiliation: CyVerse, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
authors.forename: Ramona L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Walls
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.|United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Corn Insects and Crop Genetics, Ames, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Ethalinda Ks
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Cannon
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cochrane
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Anjanette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Ilene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karsch-Mizrachi
authors.affiliation: Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsius str. 1, Bremen 28359, Germany.
authors.forename: Pelin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
mesh_terms: D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D000071253:Metadata; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D012958:Societies, Scientific
keywords: Checklist; Contextual data; Plant; Specimen