The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) released version 1.7.0 of the Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language (GCDML) see http://gensc.sourceforge.net/gcdml/index.html and http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GCDML.
This version implements the Minimum Information about a Genome sequence (MIMS) and Minimum Information about a Metagenome Sequence (MIMS) 2.0 as published in Nature Biotechnology 26, 541-547 (2008) (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n5/full/nbt1360.html).... read more