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10年中，基因组学领域取得了巨大进展，改变了基础研究的方式，吸引了新一代科学家进入该领域，并提供了大量具有潜在医学和农业应用的新信息和知识。 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公布并提供给研究界。 为期两天的讲习班，题为“关于快速发布出版前数据的国际讲习班”，由加拿大基因组组织与国家卫生研究院-国家人类基因组研究所合作举办（NIH-NHGRI），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）和英国惠康信托基金会，将于5月12日至13日，2009年在加拿大多伦多的喜来登酒店。 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，植物和微生物组来源的大规模数据集的生成者，数据库管理员，资助者和期刊编辑，以回顾快速，出版前数据发布的历史，成功和挑战，重新审视“社区资源计划”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以最大限度地用于科学研究的方式迅速提供。 美国国家科学基金会将资助10名美国科学家参加这次研讨会。 预计讲习班的成果将发展成为一套国际准则，用于出版前发布国际人类、微生物组和植物群落资源项目产生的主要类型的大规模全基因组数据集。 将提交一份宣传讲习班建议和准则的展望文件供出版。

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.