Meeting report: "Metagenomics, metadata and meta-analysis" (M3) workshop at the pacific symposium on biocomputing 2010

Abstract

This report summarizes the M3 Workshop held at the January 2010 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. The workshop, organized by Genomic Standards Consortium members, in-cluded five contributed talks, a series of short presentations from stakeholders in the genom-ics standards community, a poster session, and, in the evening, an open discussion session to review current projects and examine future directions for the GSC and its stakeholders.