Metadata for Soil Metagenomics
A Soil Metagenomics subcommittee of the Terragenome Initiative has submitted its recommendations to the Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) and produced an excel data entry TEMPLATE available for download (right click to “Save As” or click to “Open With…” and complete dialog box options).
http://cme.msu.edu/SoilMetadata/SoilMetadataEntryTEMPLATE.xls
Subcommittee members: George Kowalchuk (Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Free University of Amsterdam), David Myrold (Oregon State University, Crop and Soil Sciences), Cindy Nakatsu (Purdue University, Agriculture/Agronomy), Dawn Field (Oxford Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environment Research Council), Christoph Tebbe (Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Agroecology), James Tiedje (Michigan State University, Center for Microbial Ecology), and James Cole (Michigan State University, CME’s Ribosomal Database Project).
The survey results upon which this data entry template was based can be found here:
