Meeting Report: “Metagenomics, Metadata and Meta-analysis” (M3) Workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010

Lynette Hirschman,John Wooley,Tatiana Tatusova,Guy Cochrane,Peter Sterk,Yasukazu Nakamura,Jack Gilbert,Folker Meyer,Eugene Kolker,Owen White,Ilene Mizrachi,Susanna-Assunta Sansone,Lynn Schriml,Nikos Kyrpides,Dawn Field,Pelin Yilmaz

doi:10.4056/sigs.802738

Abstract

This report summarizes the M3 Workshop held at the January 2010 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. The workshop, organized by Genomic Standards Consortium members, included five contributed talks, a series of short presentations from stakeholders in the genomics standards community, a poster session, and, in the evening, an open discussion session to review current projects and examine future directions for the GSC and its stakeholders.

Highlights

The M3 Workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2010 was organized by members of the Genomic Standards Consortium to continue the outreach by the GSC to the broader multi-omics community and to the computational biology community
The GSC has been responsible for promulgating the MIGS/MIMS standard (Minimal Information about Genomic/Metagenomics Sequences) [3], and, at the 8th GSC workshop in September 2009, a new standard MIENS (Minimal Information about an ENvironmental Sequence) [4]
These standards are being incorporated into the INSDC (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration) as part of a new “structured comment field”

Summary

Introduction

The M3 Workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2010 was organized by members of the Genomic Standards Consortium to continue the outreach by the GSC to the broader multi-omics community and to the computational biology community. The workshop was a followon to two successful workshops held during the second half of 2009: the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Metagenomics, Metadata and MetaAnalysis (M3) Special Interest Group (SIG) [1], and the M5 (Metagenomics, Metadata, MetaAnalysis, Models, and Metainfrastructure) workshop held in conjunction with the Supercomputing ’09 (SC09) conference, Portland, OR, United States. Workshop, this 2010 PSB meeting included six sessions and two other workshops:. Computational studies of non-coding RNAs Dynamics of Biological Networks Multi-resolution Modeling of Biological

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