Genomic Standards Consortium

The number and pace of genomic and metagenomic sequencing projects will only increase as the use of ultra-high-throughput methods becomes common place and standards are vital to scientific progress and data sharing.

Community-driven standards have the best chance of success if developed within the auspices of international working groups.

MIGS/MIMS/MIMARKS provides an extension of the minimum information already captured by the primary nucleotide sequence archives (INSDC or DDBJ/ENA/GenBank).

Further, this development process must be supported by providing mechanisms for achieving compliance if a checklist is to be adopted as a tool for the standardization of a particular area of knowledge.

The GSC has also published a series of papers "Genomic Standards Consortium and Beyond" in the journal GigaScience.