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October 2016. </p><p><b>Citation:</b> Droege et al. (2016): The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Standard Specification. DATABASE. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2016/baw125.full">doi: 10.1093/database/baw125</a> </p><p><b>The GGBN Data Standard is intended to be used with ABCD or Darwin Core and is not a stand-alone solution!</b> Implementations are available for both ABCD and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rs.gbif.org/extension/ggbn/">DarwinCore-Archive</a>. For ABCD two implementations have been made. One for single species samples <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.ggbn.org/schemas/ggbn/terms/ABCDGGBN.html">ABCDGGBN</a> and one for environmental samples <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.ggbn.org/schemas/ggbn/Enviro/ABCDGGBN_Enviro.html">ABCDGGBN-Enviro</a>. </p> </div> <p>The GGBN Data Standard is a set of terms and controlled vocabularies designed to represent sample facts. It does not cover e.g., scientific name, geography, or physiological facts. This allows combining the GGBN Data Standard with other complementary standards, such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/">DwC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/ABCD_2.06/HTML/ABCD_2.06.html">ABCD</a> or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gensc.org/mixs/">MIxS</a>. Potentially, the standard can be used not only for non-human genomic samples but also human samples. It builds upon existing standards commonly used within the communities extending them with the capability to exchange data on tissue, environmental and DNA sample as well as sequences. The GGBN Data Standard incorporates all molecular terms of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gensc.org/mixs/">MIxS</a>, and can also handle <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isber.org/?page=SPREC">SPREC</a> and large parts of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169291/">BRISQ</a>. It has been developed as a cross-domain effort lead by the Global Genome Biodiversity Network together with colleagues from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/">DwC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/ABCD_2.06/HTML/ABCD_2.06.html">ABCD</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gensc.org/mixs/">MIxS</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gbif.org">GBIF</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.esbb.org">ESBB</a> and others over the last years. </p><p><b>Namespace URI:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://data.ggbn.org/schemas/ggbn/terms/">http://data.ggbn.org/schemas/ggbn/terms/</a> with preferred namespace prefix <code>“ggbn”</code>. </p> <div id="wikinote"> <p><b>A list of mandatory and recommended fields for sharing data with GGBN as well as information on how to map your data can be found <a href="/ggbn/Mandatory_and_recommended_fields_for_sharing_data_with_GGBN" title="Mandatory and recommended fields for sharing data with GGBN"> here</a>.</b> </p> </div>    </div> <div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="http://wiki.ggbn.org/ggbnwiki/index.php?title=GGBN_Data_Standard&oldid=4694">http://wiki.ggbn.org/ggbnwiki/index.php?title=GGBN_Data_Standard&oldid=4694</a>" </div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/ggbn/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/ggbn/Category:Data_standards" title="Category:Data standards">Data standards</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <div id="p-personal" role="navigation" class="" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label"> <h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3> <ul> <li id="pt-login"><a href="/ggbnwiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=GGBN+Data+Standard" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="left-navigation"> <div id="p-namespaces" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label"> <h3 id="p-namespaces-label">Namespaces</h3> <ul> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a href="/ggbn/GGBN_Data_Standard" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">Page</a></span></li> <li id="ca-talk" class="new"><span><a href="/ggbnwiki/index.php?title=Talk:GGBN_Data_Standard&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></span></li> </ul> </div> <div id="p-variants" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label"> <h3 id="mw-vector-current-variant"> </h3> <h3 id="p-variants-label"><span>Variants</span><a href="#"></a></h3> <div class="menu"> <ul> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="right-navigation"> <div id="p-views" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-views-label"> <h3 id="p-views-label">Views</h3> <ul> <li id="ca-view" class="selected"><span><a href="/ggbn/GGBN_Data_Standard" >View</a></span></li> <li id="ca-viewsource"><span><a href="/ggbnwiki/index.php?title=GGBN_Data_Standard&action=edit" title="This page is protected.
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