The National Plant Genome Initiative at Ten Years: A Community Workshop to be held August 2008 in Irvine, California

国家植物基因组计划（NPGI）成立于1998年，是由跨机构植物基因组工作组（IWG-PG）协调的国家植物基因组研究计划。自该计划启动以来的10年中，植物基因组学领域取得了巨大的进步，改变了植物研究的方式，吸引了新一代科学家进入该领域，并为农业提供了大量具有潜在应用价值的新信息和知识。本次研讨会的目的是讨论植物基因组研究在NPGI十年后在美国的地位，并考虑未来十年的挑战和机遇。讲习班将汇集来自学术、私营和国际部门的在高通量基因组学、植物生物学、生物信息学和数据库方面具有广泛专门知识的利益攸关方。讲习班的成果将以文件的形式记录下来，由讲习班参与者编写并分发给更广泛的社区。该文件可通过http://pbio.salk.edu/pbioe/和TAIR（http：www.arabidopsis.org）查阅。

The National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI) was established in 1998 as a coordinated national plant genome research program by the Interagency Working Group on Plant Genomes (IWG-PG). In the 10 years since the program started, the field of plant genomics has made tremendous progress, changing the way that plant research is conducted, attracting a new generation of scientists to the field and contributing a wealth of new information and knowledge with potential application to agriculture. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the status of plant genome research in the U.S. after 10 years of the NPGI and to consider the challenges and opportunities for the next decade. The workshop will bring together stakeholders with broad range of expertise in high-throughput genomics, plant biology, bioinformatics and databases drawn from the academic, private and international sectors. Workshop outcomes will be captured in the form of a paper to be developed by the workshop participants and circulated to the broader community. The paper will be accessible through http://pbio.salk.edu/pbioe/ and TAIR (http://www.arabidopsis.org).