Projects

The GSC supports a wide range of projects.  All are described below and the link under “GSC Project Description” leads to a second page with all relevant information about the project including contacts, overview information, key links and documents like publications and how to get involved.  These project descriptions are based on the GSC Project Description Template and are updated on an annual basis (Spring of each year).  We welcome the addition of new projects at any time.

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Logo	Acronym	Full Name	GSC Project Description	Lead	Date
	MIxS	Minimum Information about any Sequence	Core standards of the GSC for describing genomes, metagenomes and gene marker sequences	Pelin Yilmaz	GSC 1, 2005
	GCDML	Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language	An XML schema implementing MIxS	Renzo Kottmann	GSC 4, 2007
	GRS	Genomic Rosetta Stone	Mapping of genomic identifiers across databases (to help unify descriptions from different electronic sources)	Peter Dawyndt	GSC 4, 2007
	SIGS	Standards in Genomic Sciences Journal	The Open Access Journal of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)	George Garrity	GSC 5, 2008
	M5	Metagenomics, Metadata, MetaAnalysis, Models and MetaInfrastructure	Bringing it all together in metagenomes – from data, to metadata to workflows to clouds	Folker Meyer	GSC 9, 2005
	MEP	Microbial Earth Project	Megasequencing project covering all microbial type strains (~10.000 genomes)	Nikos Kyrpides	GSC 9, 2009
	GBWG	GSC Biodiversity Working Group	Building intersections between the genomics and biodiversity communities – towards building the field of “Biodiversity Genomics”	Bob Robbins	GSC 9, 2009
	MIxS-ers	MIxS Compliance and Interoperability Working Group	The engine of the GSC – developers and curators working together to implement MIxS	James Cole	GSC 10, 2010
	Micro B3	Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology	Marine Microbial Bioinformatics Platform development – generating and using GSC compliant data – including Ocean Sampling Day	Frank Oliver Glöckner	GSC 11, 2011
	EnvO	Environment Ontology	An ontology to describe the environment (and samples taken from it)	Pier Luigi Buttigieg	GSC 14, 2012
	MIxS-BE	MIxS for indoor metagenomics	A MIxS environmental package for describing the microbial community in built environments	Lynn Schriml	GSC 13, 2012
	BIOM	The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format	A uniform file format for capturing the sample by observation matrix-style data and metadata that is common in the -omics fields.	Greg Caporaso	GSC 13, 2011
	GOs Network	Genomic Observatories Network	Building a global network of expert site with long-term highly contextualized genomic observations	Neil Davies	GSC 14, 2012
	Biocode Commons	Biocode Commons	Building the informatics stack for the Genomic Observatories Network – from field to analysis to publication	John Deck	GSC 14, 2012
	MIGO	Minimum Information about a Genomic Observatory	A specification for describing Genomic Observatories	Neil Davies	GSC 12, 2011
	ISA	ISA Infrastructure	Next-generation data sharing software suite based on the ISA-file format – capable of handling multi-omic data	Susanna Sansone	2012 (2003)
	MIPS	Minimum Information on a Phenotype MicroArray Study	A minimum standard for recording and distributing PM data, which aid in improving genome annotation and testing metabolic hypotheses	Hans-Peter Klenk	GSC 15, 2013
	MiBiG	Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster	Description of gene clusters encoding the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites.	Marnix Medema	GSC 15, 2013
	GCDJ	Genomic Contextual Data JSON	A JSON exchange format for Genomic Contextual Data	Ivaylo Kostadinov	GSC 17, 2015
	MIxS-HCR	MIxS for hydrocarbon resources	A MIxS environmental package for describing the microbial community in hydrocarbon resources	Nicolas Tsesmetzis	GSC 17, 2015
	GGBN Standard	GGBN Data Standard Specification	A set of terms and controlled vocabularies designed to represent tissue, DNA or RNA facts	Gabi Droege	GSC 18, 2016