Genomics Standards Consortium

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is an open-membership working body formed in September 2005. The aim of the GSC is making genomic data discoverable. The GSC enables genomic data integration, discovery and comparison through international community-driven standards.

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Genomic Standards Consortium



The GSC Community

The Genomics Standards Consortium is a volunteeer organization made up of people who want to make genomic data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. There is no GSC membership per se, but individuals and organization can get involved by attending an annual meeting, following our Github repositories, or joining one of our mailing lists (see the Contact Us page), or contributing to the Compliance and Interoperabilty Group that maintains the MIxS standards.

GSC standards adopters

The following organisations are actively using and promoting the use of GSC’s stanards, included MIxS, MIGO, etc.:

If your project is using a MIxS standard and is not on this list, please let us know by creating an issue at (link to website issue tracker).

Join the CIG

If you are using or considering using MIxS standards, we welcome your participation in the Compliance and Interoperability Group (CIG). The CIG meets monthly (see Calendar) and has a separate Google Group mailing list (link).

CIG activities include: