The Experiments Metadata Checklist establishes a minimum checklist of properties to standardise descriptions about how genomics experiments are conducted. Product development was led by David Bujold (Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics at McGill University) and Peter Woollard (EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute), under the guidance of Discovery Work Stream Manager Beatrice Amos (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Read more in the Expmeta press release here.

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The Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Quality Control (QC) Standards establish global best practices for consistent, reliable, and comparable genomic data quality across institutions. Product development was led by Justin Jeyakani, Maxime Hebrard, and Nicolas Bertin of Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE), under the guidance of LSG Work Stream Manager, Reggan Thomas (EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute).

Read more in the WGS QC press release here.