A Practical Approach to Using the Genomic Standards Consortium MIxS Reporting Standard for Comparative Genomics and Metagenomics
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Chris Mungall, Mark A. Miller, Montana Smith, Sagar Patil, Julia M. Kelliher, L. Johnson, Francisca E. Rodriguez, Patrick Chain, Bin Hu, M. Thornton, Lee Ann McCue, Alice C. McHardy, Nomi L. Harris, T. B. K. Reddy, Supratim Mukherjee, Chris Hunter, Ramona Walls, Lynn M. Schriml
Abstract
Comparative analysis of (meta)genomes necessitates aggregation, integration, and synthesis of well-annotated data using standards. The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) collaborates with the research community to develop and maintain the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) reporting standard for genomic data. To facilitate the use of the GSC's MIxS reporting standard, we provide a description of the structure and terminology, how to navigate ontologies for required terms in MIxS, and demonstrate practical usage through a soil metagenome example.