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

国家植物基因组倡议(NPGI)是由机构间植物基因组工作组(IWG-PG)于1998年建立的一个协调的国家植物基因组研究计划。该计划启动10年来，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，并贡献了丰富的新信息和知识，具有潜在的农业应用价值。本次研讨会的目的是讨论在NPGI实施10年后美国植物基因组研究的现状，并考虑下一个十年的挑战和机遇。研讨会将汇集在高通量基因组学、植物生物学、生物信息学和来自学术界、私营部门和国际部门的数据库方面具有广泛专业知识的利益攸关方。讲习班成果将以一份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。白皮书将通过http://pbio.salk.edu/pbioe/和TAIR(http://www.arabidopsis.org).)访问

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).