Open AccessThe “Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence” (MIENS) specification
Author(s) -
Pelin Yilmaz,
Renzo Kottmann,
Dawn Field,
Rob Knight,
James R. Cole,
Linda AmaralZettler,
Jack A. Gilbert,
Ilene KarschMizrachi,
Anjanette Johnston,
Guy Cochrane,
R. W. Vaughan,
Christopher Ian Hunter,
Joonhong Park,
Norman Morrison,
Phillipe Rocca-Serra,
Peter J. Sterk,
Mani Arumugam,
Laura K. Baumgartner,
Bruce W. Birren,
Martin J. Blaser,
Vivien Bonazzi,
Peer Bork,
Pier Luigi Buttigieg,
Patrick Chain,
Elizabeth K. Costello,
Heather Huot-Creasy,
Peter Dawyndt,
Todd Z. DeSantis,
Noah Fierer,
Jed A. Fuhrman,
Rachel E. Gallery,
Richard A. Gibbs,
Michelle Giglio,
Inigo San Gil,
Elizabeth M. Glass,
Antonio G. González,
Jeffrey I. Gordon,
Robert Guralnick,
Wolfgang Hankeln,
Sarah K. Highlander,
Philip Hugenholtz,
Janet K. Jansson,
Jerry Kennedy,
Dan Knights,
Omry Koren,
Justin Kuczynski,
Nikos Kyrpides,
Robert D. Larsen,
Christian L. Lauber,
Teresa M. Legg,
Ruth E. Ley,
Catherine Lozupone,
Wolfgang Ludwig,
Donna Lyons,
Eamonn Maguire,
Barbara Methé,
Folker Meyer,
Sara Nakielny,
Karen E. Nelson,
Diana R. Nemergut,
Josh D. Neufeld,
Norman R. Pace,
Giri Palanisamy,
Jörg Peplies,
Jane Peterson,
Joseph Petrosino,
Lita M. Proctor,
Jeroen Raes,
Sujeevan Ratnasingham,
Jacques Ravel,
David A. Relman,
Susanna Assunta-Sansone,
Lynn M. Schriml,
Erica Sodergren,
Aymé Spor,
Jesse Stombaugh,
James M. Tiedje,
Doyle V. Ward,
George M. Weinstock,
Doug Wendel,
Owen White,
Andreas Wilke,
Jennifer Wortmann,
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2010.5252.1
Subject(s) - sequence (biology) , biosphere , tree of life (biology) , diversity (politics) , tree (set theory) , dna sequencing , computational biology , computer science , genetic diversity , genomic information , data science , biology , ecology , gene , genetics , genome , phylogenetic tree , political science , sociology , mathematics , population , mathematical analysis , demography , law
We present the Genomic Standards Consortium’s (GSC) “Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence” (MIENS) standard for describing marker genes. Adoption of MIENS will enhance our ability to analyze natural genetic diversity across the Tree of Life as it is currently being documented by massive DNA sequencing efforts from myriad ecosystems in our ever-changing biosphere