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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
</span><a href="https://bids.neuroimaging.io/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Brain Imaging Data Structure</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (BIDS) community is pleased to announce version 1.3.0
of the BIDS standard! This release includes the addition of </span><a href="https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.0/04-modality-specific-files/08-genetic-descriptor.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">genetic descriptors</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
for linking BIDS datasets to genetic datasets. We would like to thank contributors to the Genetic Information BIDS Extension Proposal, led by Cyril Pernet, Clara Moreau with contributions from Tom Nichols and Jessica Turner. We’d also like to thank Arshitha
Basavaraj and Tom Nichols for rendering the specification as a </span><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3720628#.XpYUPNNKjFQ"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">PDF</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our next priority will be finalizing the specification of
</span><a href="https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/265"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">BIDS-Derivatives</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. Please feel free to review
</span><a href="https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/common-derivatives/05-derivatives/01-introduction.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">the draft</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and
comment. The specification of spatial references, in particular composite surface/volume spaces, remains an
</span><a href="https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/301"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">open question</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> with room for expert review.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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