Meeting Report:eGenomics: Cataloguing Our Complete Genome Collection II

This article summarizes the proceedings of the "eGenomics: Cataloguing our Complete Genome Collection II" workshop held November 10–11, 2005, at the European Bioinformatics Institute. This exploratory workshop, organized by members of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), brought together researchers from the genomic, functional OMICS, and computational biology communities to discuss standardization activities across a range of projects. The workshop proceedings and outcomes are set to help guide the development of the GSC's Minimal Information about a Genome Sequence (MIGS) specification. This paper is part of the special issue of OMICS on data standards.