Workshop: Furture database requirements for Aradopsis

为一个由两部分组成的公共研讨会提供了概要支持，以考虑研究拟南芥和其他高等植物的生物学家未来的数据库需求。重点将是确定那些利用高密度遗传图谱、物理图谱、YAC和BAC重叠群以及基因组或cDNA序列信息来克隆或表征来自深入研究的生物(如拟南芥)的基因的人的需求。此外，人们对使用高密度基因芯片或基因微阵列的兴趣迅速增长，将产生新的数据管理问题，如果不加以解决，这些问题将限制这项新兴技术的应用。拟议讲习班的第一届会议将侧重于确定拟南芥社区所认为的未来需求。一个由16至20人组成的小组将代表社会不同界别，讨论现有或将会获得的各种资料。这一会议将作为6月28日在美国威斯康星州麦迪逊举行的美国植物生理学家协会会议的附属研讨会举行。将通过拟南芥新闻组和所有其他与植物有关的新闻组征求广大社区的书面意见，并向研讨会的与会者提供。将编写一份会议的书面摘要，并提交给与会者和广大社区征求意见。讲习班第二届会议将在大约两个月后举行，重点讨论与解决第一届会议确定的需要有关的技术问题，并重新审议在公开讨论第一届讲习班会议议事过程中提出的任何问题。大约10名代表具有丰富生物数据库经验的人的与会者和一个代表用户社区的小组委员会将讨论采用第一届会议报告和社区相关评注中所述最符合社区需要的信息资源的可能备选方案。一个由代表两届会议的应邀与会者组成的小组委员会将起草一份协商一致文件，尽最大努力描述植物生物界各部门目前和未来的需求，并提出未来五至七年的现实行动计划。

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.