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Open AccessSimulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium
Systems biology promises to revolutionize medicine, yet human wellbeing is also inherently linked to healthy societies and environments (sustainability). The IDEA Consortium is a systems ecology open science i...
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Open AccessThe ocean sampling day consortium
Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the w...
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Open AccessThe hospital microbiome project: meeting report for the UK science and innovation network UK-USA workshop ‘beating the superbugs: hospital microbiome studies for tackling antimicrobial resistance’, October 14th 2013
The UK Science and Innovation Network UK-USA workshop ‘Beating the Superbugs: Hospital Microbiome Studies for tackling Antimicrobial Resistance’ was held on October 14th 2013 at the UK Department of Health, Lo...
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Open AccessGenomic Standards Consortium Projects
The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is an open-membership community that was founded in 2005 to work towards the development, implementation and harmonization of standards in the field of genomics. Starting...
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Open AccessReport of the 14th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Oxford, UK, September 17–21, 2012
This report summarizes the proceedings of the 14th workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) held at the University of Oxford in September 2012. The primary goal of the workshop was to work towards the l...
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Open AccessThe founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network
The co-authors of this paper hereby state their intention to work together to launch the Genomic Observatories Network (GOs Network) for which this document will serve as its Founding Charter. We define a Genomic...
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Open AccessThe 15th Genomic Standards Consortium meeting
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Open AccessA call for an international network of genomic observatories (GOs)
We are entering a new era in genomics–that of large-scale, place-based, highly contextualized genomic research. Here we review this emerging paradigm shift and suggest that sites of utmost scientific importanc...
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Open AccessMeeting Report: Hackathon-Workshop on Darwin Core and MIxS Standards Alignment (February 2012)
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Genomic Standards Consortium convened a joint workshop at the University of Oxford, 27–29 February 2012, with a small group of experts from Europe, USA, Chi...
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Open AccessRCN4GSC Workshop Report: Managing Data at the Interface of Biodiversity and (Meta)Genomics, March 2011
Building on the planning efforts of the RCN4GSC project, a workshop was convened in San Diego to bring together experts from genomics and metagenomics, biodiversity, ecology, and bioinformatics with the charge...
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Open AccessThe M5nr: a novel non-redundant database containing protein sequences and annotations from multiple sources and associated tools
Computing of sequence similarity results is becoming a limiting factor in metagenome analysis. Sequence similarity search results encoded in an open, exchangeable format have the potential to limit the needs f...
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Predicting bacterial community assemblages using an artificial neural network approach
Microbial Assemblage Prediction is a predictive model for the climate-dependent abundance of microbial taxa in space and time. It takes potential interactions between taxa into account and is used on longitudi...
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Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through replicated experimental design
Metagenomics holds enormous promise for discovering novel enzymes and organisms that are biomarkers or drivers of processes relevant to disease, industry and the environment. In the past two years, we have see...
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Open AccessThe Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A standardized metric for quantifying database metadata richness
Variability in the extent of the descriptions of data (‘metadata’) held in public repositories forces users to assess the quality of records individually, which rapidly becomes impractical. The scoring of reco...
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Open AccessCloud BioLinux: pre-configured and on-demand bioinformatics computing for the genomics community
A steep drop in the cost of next-generation sequencing during recent years has made the technology affordable to the majority of researchers, but downstream bioinformatic analysis still poses a resource bottle...
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Open AccessReport of the 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Shenzhen, China, March 4–7, 2012
This report details the outcome of the 13th Meeting of the Genomic Standards Consortium. The three-day conference was held at the Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, on March 5–7, 2012, and was hosted by the B...
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Open AccessToward interoperable bioscience data
To make full use of research data, the bioscience community needs to adopt technologies and reward mechanisms that support interoperability and promote the growth of an open 'data commoning' culture. Here we d...
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A genomic network to monitor Earth
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Open AccessConceptualizing a Genomics Software Institute (GSI)
Microbial ecology has been enhanced greatly by the ongoing ‘omics revolution, bringing half the world’s biomass and most of its biodiversity into analytical view for the first time; indeed, it feels almost lik...
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Open AccessA second special issue of Standards In Genomic Sciences from the Genomic Standards Consortium
