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INCITS/ISO/IEC 23092-3:2020[2021]: Information technology - Genomic information representation - Part 3: Metadata and application programming interfaces (APIs) (Inactive)

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Start: 2021-02-24 Completed: 2021-08-31

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Title of Standard:: Information technology - Genomic information representation - Part 3: Metadata and application programming interfaces (APIs)

Scope Summary:: Specifies information metadata, auxiliary fields, SAM interoperability, protection metadata and programming interfaces of genomic information. It defines: metadata storage and interpretation for the different encapsulation levels as specified in ISO/IEC 23092-1 (in Clause 6); protection elements providing confidentiality, integrity and privacy rules at the different encapsulation levels specified in ISO/IEC 23092-1 (in Clause 7); how to associate auxiliary fields to encoded reads (in Clause 8); mechanisms for backward compatibility with existing SAM content, and exportation to this format (in Annex C); interfaces to access genomic information coded in compliance with ISO/IEC 23092-1 and ISO/IEC 23092-2 (in subclause 8.1).

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