Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Resources for Genome-Enabled Research on Microbial Life and the Marine Environment to be held Sept. 9-11, 2007 in Arlington, VA

这是一笔资助，用于支持美国科学家参加2007年9月举行的美国-欧盟委员会联合研讨会。研讨会的目标是将微生物学家，生态学家，海洋生物学家，生物信息学家和计算机科学家聚集在一起，探讨未来微生物和海洋科学网络基础设施需求的范围及其维护策略。研讨会将于2007年9月9日至11日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的国家科学基金会总部举行，它将研究对成功开发微生物网络基础设施至关重要的四个问题：微生物网络基础设施的计算进步将使大规模生物学和海洋学问题成为可能？微生物生物学的累积知识如何被捕获并整合到微生物网络基础设施的结构中？什么类型的元数据能最好地提升基因组和宏基因组数据的价值？从构建生物网络基础设施的开拓性努力中可以吸取什么教训？2005年5月12日至13日在德国不来梅举行的题为“研究海洋环境和资源的基因组方法”的首次研讨会取得了巨大成功，本次研讨会紧随其后。与那次研讨会一样，预计2007年的会议将促进合作，为与会者带来协同作用和综合，并将产生一份报告，由美国-欧盟生物技术研究特别工作组发表。讲习班包括来自不同科学和国际背景的科学家，并将在非常高的水平上促进海洋和微生物科学的国际合作。

This is a grant to support U.S. scientists to participate in a joint US-European Commission workshop in September 2007. The goal of the workshop is to bring together microbiologists, ecologists, marine biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists to explore the scope of future microbial and marine sciences cyberinfrastructure needs, and strategies for its maintenance. The workshop will be held September 9-11, 2007 at the National Science Foundation Headquarters in Arlington, VA. It will examine four issues critical to the development of a successful microbial cyberinfrastructure: What are the large-scale biological and oceanographic questions that will be enabled by the computational advances of a microbial cyberinfrastructure? How can cumulative knowledge of microbial biology be captured and integrated within the structure of a microbial cyberinfrastructure? What types of accompanying metadata will best enhance the value of genomic and metagenomic data? What lessons can be learned from pioneering efforts to construct biological cyberinfrastructures? This workshop follows a highly successful initial workshop held May 12-13, 2005 in Bremen, Germany entitled: "Genomic Approaches for Studying the Marine Environment and Resources". Like that workshop, it is envisioned that the 2007 meeting will facilitate collaboration and bring synergy and synthesis to the participants, and will result in a report to be published by the US-EC Task Force on Biotechnology Research. The workshop includes scientists of diverse backgrounds, scientifically and internationally, and will promote international collaboration in the marine and microbial sciences at a very high level.