GSC Mission

From Genomic Standards Consortium

GSC Mission

Community-driven standards have the best chance of success if developed within the auspices of international working groups. Participants in the GSC include biologists, computer scientists, those building genomic databases and conducting large-scale comparative genomic analyses, and those with experience of building community-based standards. The mission of the GSC is to work with the wider community towards:

• the implementation of new genomic standards
• methods of capturing and exchanging metadata
• harmonization of metadata collection and analysis efforts across the wider genomics community