The Genomic Standards Consortium (www.gensc.org). The GSC is an open-membership working body which formed in September 2005. The goal of this international community is to promote mechanisms that standardize the description of genomes and the exchange and integration of genomic data.

The GSC holds its 12th workshop on September 28-30, 2011, at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany.

Rationale
The standardisation efforts initiated and developed by GSC contributors have steadily progressed and are being implemented by, and integrated into, major sequence data repositories. This initial phase has seen a wide range of contributions from many fields of expertise. To continue the success of the GSC in the future, the GSC aims to transform into an organisational entity coordinating the integration and development of domain-sensitive standards. In light of this, it is prudent for the GSC to discuss and institute measures to consolidate its functions from both an organisational and project-level perspective. Furthermore, defined mechanisms to monitor the use of GSC products are needed to guide strategy and development.

Please use the following link to access the program
http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_12

On September 27, 2011, two satellite meetings will be held on WP4 of the EC project EuroMarine and on the EC project BioVeL.