Evolutionary Synthesis Center Conference Workshop II, January 31- February 3, 2002, Belmont, Md

进化综合中心会议研讨会 II，2002 年 1 月 31 日至 2 月 3 日，马里兰州贝尔蒙特

• 批准号: 0138157
• 负责人: Margaret Riley
• 金额: $ 5.27万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0138157&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Evolutionary; Synthesis; Center; Conference; Workshop

Evolution has long served to unify the study of biology, but now it has acquired a more central role. Today evolution serves to inform data acquisition, analysis and interpretation in all of the life sciences. This transformation comes in part from the explosion of raw data, from sources as far ranging as genome sequences, functional genomics, ecological genomics, large-scale ecosystem studies, long-term behavioral studies and phylogenetics. There is no institution or funding agency dedicated to the consolidation, synthesis and dissemination of this broad sweep of evolutionarily relevant information. NSF sponsored a workshop in Spring 2001 to address the need for an evolutionary synthesis center (ESC) and to develop an action plan to meet this need (award DEB-0120472; draft report at http://frog.biology.yale.edu/esc). The participants unanimously agreed that there is a clear and compelling need for a center to promote and facilitate evolutionary synthesis. Although the first workshop made impressive progress in the development of an ESC working model, it became clear that a second workshop would be required to address several topics in more detail. The goal of this proposal is to hold a second ESC workshop to address the following issues. First, if a center is to be embraced by the diversity of the evolutionary community, it is critical that comments and suggestions from that community be incorporated into the earliest possible phase of ESC development. Thus a draft report from the first workshop was made available to the relevant scientific communities and comments and endorsements were solicited. One focus of the second workshop is to address all of the concerns raised. Second, the participants of the first workshop were chosen for their ability to represent the diversity of evolutionary research. The resulting group did not have adequate strengths in the areas of bioinformatics, information technology, statistics, and mathematics to determine the needs of the proposed Evolutionary Informatics Division (EID) of an ESC. An appropriate group of such specialists will be invited to participate in the second workshop to consider the goals, content and capacities of the EID more carefully. Finally, because in the first workshop little attention was paid to how to achieve the goals of the Outreach Division of an ESC, this will be another focus for the second ESC workshop.

进化论长期以来一直起着统一生物学研究的作用，但现在它已经获得了更核心的作用。今天，进化为所有生命科学中的数据获取、分析和解释提供了信息。这种转变在一定程度上来自原始数据的爆炸性增长，来源包括基因组序列、功能基因组学、生态基因组学、大规模生态系统研究、长期行为研究和系统发育学。没有任何机构或资助机构专门致力于整合、综合和传播这一广泛的进化相关信息。国家科学基金会在2001年春季主办了一次研讨会，以解决进化合成中心的需求，并制定行动计划来满足这一需求(授予DEB-0120472；http://frog.biology.yale.edu/esc).报告草稿与会者一致认为，有明确和迫切的需要建立一个中心来促进和促进进化合成。虽然第一次讲习班在制定南南合作工作模式方面取得了令人印象深刻的进展，但显然需要第二次讲习班来更详细地讨论几个专题。这项提议的目标是举办第二次ESC研讨会，以解决以下问题。首先，如果一个中心要被进化社区的多样性所接纳，那么来自该社区的评论和建议被纳入ESC发展的最早阶段是至关重要的。因此，向有关科学界提供了第一次讲习班的报告草稿，并征求了意见和认可。第二期讲习班的一个重点是解决提出的所有关切问题。其次，第一期研讨会的参与者是因为他们有能力代表进化研究的多样性而被选中的。由此产生的小组在生物信息学、信息技术、统计学和数学领域没有足够的优势来确定拟议的进化信息学司(EID)的需求。将邀请一批适当的此类专家参加第二次研讨会，以更仔细地审议开学典礼的目标、内容和能力。最后，由于第一期讲习班几乎没有注意到如何实现对外联络处的目标，这将是第二期对外联络处讲习班的另一个重点。