CDinFusion--submission-ready, on-line integration of sequence and contextual data.

ABSTRACT: State of the art (DNA) sequencing methods applied in "Omics" studies grant insight into the 'blueprints' of organisms from all domains of life. Sequencing is carried out around the globe and the data is submitted to the public repositories of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. However, the context in which these studies are conducted often gets lost, because experimental data, as well as information about the environment are rarely submitted along with the sequence data. If these contextual or metadata are missing, key opportunities of comparison and analysis across studies and habitats are hampered or even impossible. To address this problem, the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) promotes checklists and standards to better describe our sequence data collection

SUBMITTER: Hankeln W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3172294 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature