The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Junjie Qin (BGI, China).
MetaHIT: exploring the human microbiome.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 ( http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13 ). Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, USA). PanOCT: Automated Clustering of Orthologs using Conserved Gene Neighborhood for Pan-Genomic Analysis of Bacterial Strains and Closely Related Species.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Kessy Abarenkov (University of Tartu, Estonia).
UNITE database for molecular identification of fungal communities in metagenomic studies.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Jason Stajich (UC-Riverside, USA).
Fungi Indoors: creating the appropriate databases for fungal research.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Patrick Chain (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA).
Exploring the microbial world multiple cells at a time!

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Jaeyoung Choi (Seoul National University, Korea).
Bioinformatic Portal System for fungal functional, comparative and evolutionary genomics.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Gane Ka-Shu Wong (University of Alberta, Canada and BGI-Shenzhen)
Viral discovery by metagenomics sequencing of clinical samples

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Timothy Stockwell (J. Craig Venter Institute, USA).
Viral high-throughput next generation sequencing at JCVI.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Zhengli Shi (Wuhan Institute of Virology, China).
Viral metagenomic analysis of several bat populations and fresh water samples.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 ( http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13 ). Richard Scheuermann (UT Southwestern, USA). Standardizing metadata associated with NIAID Genome Sequencing Center projects and their implementation in NIAID Bioinformatics Resource Centers.