Workshop: Furture database requirements for Aradopsis

为考虑生物学家研究拟南芥和其他高等植物的未来数据库需求的两部分公共研讨会提供支持。重点将是定义那些利用高密度遗传图谱、物理图谱、YAC和BAC contigs以及基因组或cDNA序列信息克隆或表征深入研究的生物体（如拟南芥）基因的人的需求。此外，对高密度基因芯片或基因微阵列使用的兴趣迅速扩大，将产生新的数据管理问题，如果不加以解决，将限制这一新兴技术的应用。拟议的讲习班的第一届会议将集中于确定拟南芥社区未来的预期需求。由代表社会各界的16至20人组成的小组将讨论现有或即将提供的各种信息。本次会议将作为6月28日在美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊市举行的美国植物生理学家协会会议的附属研讨会举行。整个社区的书面评论将通过拟南芥新闻组和所有其他与植物相关的新闻组征求，并提供给研讨会的参与者。将准备一份会议的书面总结，并提交给与会者和广大社群征求意见。讲习班的第二届会议将在大约两个月后举行，重点是与解决第一届会议确定的需求有关的技术问题，以及重新审议在第一届讲习班会议记录的公开讨论期间提出的任何问题。代表具有广泛生物数据库经验的人员的大约10名与会者和代表用户群体的一个小组委员会将讨论实施信息资源的可能选择方案，以最好地满足第一届会议报告和社区的相关评论中所述的社区需求。一个由代表两会的受邀参与者组成的小组委员会将起草一份共识文件，尽最大努力描述植物生物界各部门当前和未来的需求，并提出未来5至7年的现实行动计划。

SUMMARY Support is provided for a two-part public workshop to consider the future database needs of biologists studying Arabidopsis and other higher plants. The emphasis will be on defining the needs of those who utilize high density genetic maps, physical maps, YAC and BAC contigs and genomic or cDNA sequence information to clone or characterize genes from intensively studied organisms such as Arabidopsis. In addition, rapidly expanding interest in the use of high density gene chips or gene microarrays will create novel data management problems that if not addressed will limit the utility of this emerging technology. The first session of the proposed workshop will be focused on identifying the perceived future needs of the Arabidopsis community. A group of sixteen to twenty people representing various sectors of the community will discuss the various kinds of information that is or will be available. This session will be held as an adjunct workshop to the American Society of Plant Physiologists Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, USA on June 28. Written comments from the community at large will be solicited via the Arabidopsis newsgroup, and all other plant- related newsgroups, and made available to the participants in the workshop. A written summary of the session will be prepared and submitted to the participants and the community at large for comment. The second session of the workshop will take place approximately two months later and will be focused on the technical issues associated with addressing the needs identified in the first session, and with reconsideration of any issues raised during the public discussion of the proceedings of the first workshop session. Approximately ten participants representing people with extensive biological database experience and a subcommittee representing the user community will discuss possible options for implementing an information resource that will best meet the needs of the community as described in the report of the first session and the associated commentary from the community. A subcommittee of invited participants representing the two sessions will draft a consensus document representing a best effort attempt to describe the current and future needs of various sectors of the plant biology community, and to propose a realistic plan of action for the next five to seven years.