Register for GSC21 May 20-23, 2019 Vienna,Austria
GSC21@Vienna
GSC21 preparations are on! The meeting will take place in Vienna (Austria), on May 20-23, 2019. For further details, be sure to check the meeting page here.
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New Board Members
GSC welcomes two new board members; Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh and Christopher Hunter! Emiley is the Metagenome Program Lead at the DOE-JGI, and her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify novel microbial life…
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GSC20 Agenda & Logistics
GSC20 AGENDA : daily agenda, speakers May 1: 2:00 pm GSC Board Meeting May 2-4: GSC20 Annual Meeting Doors open at 8:30 am. GSC20: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. LOGISTICS: walking directions, maps, parking Venue: Center for Microbiome Innovation, Atkinson Hall at University of California…
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GSC Speakers at Hellenic Bioinformatics 10
GSC colleagues will be speaking during the Hellenic Bioinformatics conference (September 6-9 2017, Heraklion, Greece): Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Title: A novel pipeline for high quality amplicon analysis integrated into MG-RAST Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland, USA Title:…
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Genomic Observatories Metadatabase
Check out the GeOMe repository, great work by our GBWG colleagues! The Genomic Observatories Metadatabase (GeOMe, http://www.geome-db.org/) is an open access repository for geographic and ecological metadata associated with biosamples and genetic data. Whereas public databases have served as vital repositories…
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Expanding MIxS Standards to Genomes from Uncultivated Microorganisms
Two new checklists, Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea, have just been published in Nature Biotechnology! The checklists were conceived by Tanja Woyke Robert Bowers of JGI. These extensions…
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GSC19 speakers and agenda
GSC19 agenda and speakers are now available: Registration will be open until April, 15 2017: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=1913695 The meeting will take place at the Stamford Plaza, Brisbane, Australia between 15th-17th May, 2017. The theme of the meeting will be Extending Standards…
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GSC19 registration now open
We are happy to announce that registration for GSC19 is now open! https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=1913695 The meeting will take place at the Stamford Plaza, Brisbane, Australia between 15th-17th May, 2017. The theme of the meeting will be Extending Standards to Viruses and…
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