The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification

By Dawn Field, George Garrity, Tanya Gray, Norman Morrison, Jeremy Selengut, P. Sterk, Tatiana Tatusova, Nicholas Thomson, M. J. Allen, Michael Ashburner and 53 more. Nature Biotechnology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology

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A practical guide to amplicon and metagenomic analysis of microbiome data (2020, background): “…should be collected, please refer to minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about metagenome sequence (Field et al., 2008; Yilmaz et al., 2011), minimum information about a single ampli ﬁ ed genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of…”
A Bioinformatician's Guide to Metagenomics (2008, methodology): “Such “metadata” include biochemical data such as pH, temperature, and salinity; geographical data such as global positioning system coordinates; and depth, height, and sample-processing data such as collection date, DNA extraction method, and clone library details (42).”
DNA Sequencing as a Tool to Monitor Marine Ecological Status (2017, methodology): “Progress is being made to create standardized protocols (Field et al., 2008; Chain et al., 2009; Gilbert, 2015; Droege et al., 2016).”
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (2016, background): “It is a community based, globally distributed grass-roots project in the tradition of many standardization efforts that have joined forces in this endeavor[6 – 9].”
Supervised classification of human microbiota. (2011, neutral): “Metadata standardization efforts such as those by the Genomic Standards Consortium (e.g. Field et al ., 2008) will be essential for large-scale multisourced data augmentation.”
The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases (2015, methodology): “Pathway Tools now supports the inclusion of MIGS [Minimal Information about a (Meta)Genome Sequence] data, which is a standard that defines the minimal essential information required to provide an accurate description of a genome and the organism or collection of organisms it was derived from (10).”
Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource (2010, methodology): “In the database design, we adopted and extended the Minimum Information about a Metagenomic Sequence (MIMS) and Minimum Information about a Genomic Sequence (MIGS) standard established by the Genomics Standards Consortium (12) to manage sample metadata.”
Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.8: overview and updates (2020, methodology): “GOLD follows the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) standards (12) established by The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) (13) and also works in close collaboration with The Environment Ontology (ENVO) community (14).”
Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy (2017, background): “…bioinformatically inferred functional annotations of the gene content of the genome should follow the minimum standards for genome descriptions established by the Genomic Standards Consortium (Field et al., 2008), which can be similarly applied for uncultivated taxa based on their genome sequences.”