Workshop: Furture database requirements for Aradopsis

总结 支持提供了一个两部分的公共研讨会，以考虑未来的数据库需要的生物学家研究拟南芥和其他高等植物。 重点将是确定那些谁利用高密度遗传图谱，物理图谱，YAC和BAC重叠群和基因组或cDNA序列信息克隆或表征基因从深入研究的生物体，如拟南芥的需求。此外，对使用高密度基因芯片或基因微阵列的兴趣迅速扩大将产生新的数据管理问题，如果不解决这些问题，将限制这种新兴技术的实用性。拟议的研讨会的第一次会议将集中在确定拟南芥社区的未来需求。代表社会各界的十六至二十人将讨论现有或即将提供的各种信息。这次会议将于6月28日在美国威斯康星州的麦迪逊举行，作为美国植物生理学家协会会议的附属研讨会。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整个社区的书面意见，并提供给研讨会的参与者。 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。研讨会第二次会议将在大约两个月后举行，重点讨论与满足第一次会议确定的需求有关的技术问题，并重新审议在公开讨论第一次研讨会会议记录期间提出的任何问题。代表具有丰富生物数据库经验的人士的大约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最能满足第一届会议报告和用户群体相关评论中所述需求的信息资源的可能备选方案。一个由代表两届会议的受邀与会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学界各部门当前和未来的需求，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.