GSC Meetings
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[edit] 5th GSC Workshop
Date: 12 - 14 December 2007
Venue: European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Co-organizers: Peter Sterk, Nikos Krypides, Tanya Gray, Dawn Field, Lynette Hirshmann, Frank Oliver Glöckner, and George Garrity
Background: This 5th workshop will focus on finalizing a stable version of the MIGS checklist for publication. It will also focus heavily on hands on work with the newly created "Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language" (GCDML). This is a much richer XML schema that also implements MIGS/MIMS in addition to containing a wider range of additional elements for describing genomes and metagenomes.
Further Details including Agenda and presentations: 5th GSC Workshop
[edit] 2nd EnvO (Environment Ontology) Workshop
Date: 15 - 16 November, 2007
Venue Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Website http://darwin.nerc-oxford.ac.uk/gc_wiki/index.php/EnvO_CSHL_workshop
[edit] Genomics and Society: Today's Answers, Tomorrow's Questions
Date: 25-26th October, 2007
Venue: London, UK
Web site: http://www.genomicsandsociety.org/index.html
A poster describing the work of the GSC will be presented at the Genomics and Society meeting:
[edit] Inaugural EnvO (Environment Ontology) Workshop
- Inaugural EnvO Workshop
Date: August 29-31, 2007
Venue: Oxford, UK
Small working group meeting co-sponsored by the GSC to launch the EnvO project.
[edit] GSC Birds of a Feather (BoF) meeting, ISMB 2007
Date: Monday 23 July, 2007
Venue: ISMB/ECCB meeting, Vienna http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/
Birds of a Feather meeting for the Genomic Standards Consortium at ISMB/ECCB 2007.
Further information: GSC at ISMB/ECCB 2007
[edit] 4th Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop
Date: 6-8 June, 2007
Venue: National Institute for Environmental e-Science, Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Dawn Field, Tatiana Tatusova, Tanya Gray, George Garrity, and Frank Oliver Glockner
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Content: As at previous workshops there will be a mix of talks and discussion sessions, although this year the talks will be shorter and more focused on progress made towards GSC goals. All speakers are advised to limit the number of slides presented as there will be a strict time schedule and the agenda is packed. There will be 6 sessions covering key topics of interest to the GSC. There will be a special focus on progress to date, the development of MIMS, future implementation of MIGS/MIMS, CVs and ontologies for describing genomes and metagenomes, the need for a single, global list of genomes and metagenomes and the role of the GSC's proposed Genomic Rosetta Stone.
Logistics: NIEeS will be hosting this workshop with co-funding by NERC through a grant to the GSC. NIEeS will cover the reasonable travel of UK participants and the GSC will cover travel of international speakers and participants. Accomodation for participants will be provided by NIEeS (this time at New Hall) as for previous workshops. This will include two evening dinners on Wed and Thursday. All invited participants should arrange their own travel which will be reimbursed after the workshop. Travel claims will be circulated at the end of the meeting for both NIEeS and NERC. The workshop will start with coffee on Wednesday June 6th at 10:00 and end by 15:00 on Friday June 8th.
Additional sponsorship generously provided by: [CAMERA]
[edit] 3rd Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop
Date: 11-13 September, 2006
Venue: National Institute for Environmental e-Science, Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Dawn Field and Tatiana Tatusova
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[edit] 1st Technical Implementation Working Group Workshop
Date: 18 December, 2005
Venue: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford
Organizers: Dawn Field and Norman Morrison
[edit] 2nd Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop
Date: 10-11 November, 2005
Venue: European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Peter Sterk and Dawn Field
[edit] 1st "Exploratory" Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop
Date: 7-9 September, 2005
Venue: National Institute for Environmental e-Science, Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Dawn Field and Tatiana Tatusova
This exploratory workshop was organized by Dawn Field and Tatiana Tatusova to discuss the need for a new genomic standard. The invited speakers were brought together to help achieve three major goals at the workshop, namely, to identify the science questions driving the need for more metadata, to look for ways to harmonize existing and future efforts at metadata capture, and to develop a more detailed vision of the shape a new standard might take. More specifically, it was hoped that the group would use this opportunity to discuss features for inclusion in the draft checklist, discuss potential mechanisms for capturing and exchanging metadata, and discuss how the community might organize itself to make such a standard a reality. By the end of the meeting, consensus was reached that such a standard should evolve and this group accepted responsibility for doing so. As a result of this workshop, the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) was formally established.
Many thanks to NIEeS for funding and hosting the event and to the participants for talks and discussions.
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