36th INSDC meeting report: May 23-25 2023, Mishima, Japan

36th INSDC meeting report: May 23-25 2023, Mishima, Japan

International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) hold the international meeting every year.
In 2023, the meeting was held 23-25 May at Bioinformation and DDBJ Center to discuss practical matters to maintain and update nucleotide sequence data archives.
The outcomes of the meeting are summarized below.

The Items Discussed and To Be Studied

Broaden INSDC membership

Members of INSDC are discussing membership, mission, vision, requirement and so on to invite participation of qualified nucleotide sequence databases.

Regarding the requirement to state the location and date of sample collection

Continuing from 2022, we examined practical issues for the requirement to state the location and date of sample collection since.

See also followings:

• Spatio-temporal annotation policy (18-11-2021)
• INSDC spatiotemporal metadata - minimum standards update (03-03-2023)

Submission and display of genomes exceeding 2.14Gbp in chromosome length

Due to system limitations, INSDC members must accept sequence data exceeding 2.14 Gbp by splitting it into two or more records.
Rules for the splitting and terminology regarding each part of chromosome were discussed.

Changes of the rules for describing features and qualifiers

• The /country qualifier will be renamed to /geo_loc_name from June 2024.
  See The /country qualifier will be renamed to /geo_loc_name.