International Workshop on Rapid Release of Pre-Publication Data to be held May 12 - 13, 2009 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto, Canada

在过去的10年里，基因组学领域取得了巨大的进步，改变了基础研究的进行方式，吸引了新一代科学家进入该领域，并贡献了大量具有潜在医疗和农业应用价值的新信息和知识。为了产生最广泛的影响，所产生的大规模全基因组数据集必须及时发布并提供给研究界。为期两天的“出版前数据快速发布国际研讨会”将于2009年5月12日至13日在加拿大多伦多喜来登盖特酒店举行，研讨会由加拿大基因组局与美国国立卫生研究院（NIH-NHGRI）、美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、英国生物技术和生物科学研究理事会（BBSRC）以及英国惠康基金会合作举办。本次研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的150名研究科学家、来自人类、植物和微生物组的大规模数据集生成器、数据库管理员、资助者和期刊编辑，共同回顾快速、出版前数据发布的历史、成功和挑战。重新审视“社区资源项目”的定义，并讨论如何确保社区资源项目产生的不同类型的数据继续迅速提供，并以对科学研究最大限度有用的方式提供。美国国家科学基金会将资助10名美国科学家参加本次研讨会。预计讲习班的成果将发展成为一套国际准则，用于从国际人类、微生物组和植物群落资源项目中产生的主要类型的大规模全基因组数据集的出版前发布。将提交一份观点文件，以宣传讲习班的建议和指导方针。

In the last 10 years, the field of genomics has made tremendous progress, changing the way that basic research is conducted, attracting a new generation of scientists to the field and contributing a wealth of new information and knowledge with potential medical and agricultural applications. In order to have the broadest impact, the large-scale, genome-wide data sets generated must be released and made available to the research community in a timely way. A two-day workshop entitled "The International Workshop on Rapid Release of Pre-publication Data", organized by Genome Canada in partnership with the National Institutes of Health-National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH-NHGRI), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the UK Wellcome Trust, will be held May 12 - 13, 2009 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto (Canada). This workshop will bring together 150 research scientists, generators of large-scale data sets from human, plant and microbiome sources, database curators, funders and journal editors from around the world to review the history, successes and challenges of rapid, prepublication data release, to revisit the definition of a "community resource project" and to discuss how to ensure that data of different types produced by community resource projects continue to be made available rapidly and in a manner that makes them maximally useful for scientific research. Funds from the NSF will support 10 US scientists to participate in this workshop. It is anticipated that the outcomes of the workshop will be developed into a set of international guidelines for pre-publication release for the major types of large-scale, genome-wide data sets being produced from international human, microbiome, and plant community resource projects. A perspective paper to publicize the workshop recommendations and guidelines will be submitted for publication.