Table 1. Acronym definitions.

Category	Acronym	Name
Databases	Dryad	Dryad Digital Repository
	GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
	GeOMe	Genomic Observatories Metadatabase
	SRA	NCBI's Sequence Read Archive
Organizations	EMBL-EBI	European Bioinformatics Institute
	EMP	Earth Microbiome Project
	GO Network	Genomic Observatories Network
	GSC	Genomic Standards Consortium
	NCBI	US National Center for Biotechnology Information
	NSF	US National Science Foundation
	RCN	Research Coordination Network
	TDWG	Biodiversity Information Standards Organization, aka Taxonomic Databases Working Group
Standards	MIxS	GSC’s Minimum Information about any (x) marker Sequence
	RDF	Resource Description Framework
	DwC	Darwin Core, TDWG’s body of standards for sharing information about biological diversity
File formats	FASTA	Fast Alignment Search Tool-All
	FASTQ	Fast Alignment Search Tool-Quality
Tools	EZID	Tool for creating and managing globally-unique, long-term identifiers for data
	FIMS	Biocode Field Information Management System