Inigo San Gil, Wade Sheldon, Tom Schmidt, Mark Servilla, Raul Aguilar, Corinna Gries, Tanya Gray, Dawn Field, James Cole, Jerry Yun Pan, Giri Palanisamy, Donald Henshaw, Margaret O'Brien, Linda Kinkel, Katherine McMahon, Renzo Kottmann, Linda Amaral-Zettler, John Hobbie, Philip Goldstein, Robert P Guralnick, James Brunt, William K Michener
The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) invited a representative of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) to its fifth workshop to present the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata standard and its relationship to the Minimum Information about a Genome/Metagenome Sequence (MIGS/MIMS) and its implementation, the Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language (GCDML). The LTER is one of the top National Science Foundation (NSF) programs in biology since 1980, representing diverse ecosystems and creating long-term, interdisciplinary research, synthesis of information, and theory...
June 2008: Omics: a Journal of Integrative Biology