EC-US Plant Biotechnology Workshop on Plant Bioinformatics and Databases to be held December 7 - 8, 2009 at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton (UK)

关于植物生物信息学和数据库的欧共体-美国植物生物技术研讨会将于 2009 年 12 月 7 日至 8 日在英国辛克斯顿 Wellcome Trust Sanger 研究所举行

• 批准号: 0960857
• 负责人: Doreen Ware
• 金额: $ 4.79万
• 依托单位: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-01 至 2012-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0960857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EC; US; Plant; Biotechnology; Workshop

Biology has become an information science. Common to all of the areas of biology, including plant biology, is the need to collect, store, integrate, analyze, retrieve and disseminate information. To meet this need in the last 30 years, bioinformatics has emerged as a field of research that includes but is not limited to the development of databases, computational analysis, algorithm development, standards, and visualization tools to store, handle and visualize biological data sets. Many of these resources to date have focused on sequence-based data sets which make up the bulk of the available high-throughput analyses, but this landscape is rapidly changing. With advances in technology and the need for translational research, the types and magnitude of the data sets are changing and scaling will require new development, increased collaboration and investment of resources.Understanding this requirement, cyberinfrastructure has been identified as an area for future investment in several reports including the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp), National Research Council Report on the "Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology" (http://dels.nas.edu/plant_genome/report.shtml), the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI) 5-year plan (http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/reports/npgi_five_year_plan_2009_2013.pdf) and the EC-US Plant Biotechnology Research 2008. The EC-US Plant Biotechnology Research Working Group identified "building translational pipelines for plant biotechnology" encompassing food, feed and renewable resources as an area for US and EC collaboration. Within this larger objective, the Working Group identified "Cyberinfrastructure" as a key area for collaboration.In an effort to address EC-US Working Group recommendations, a small workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists to discuss existing and future challenges in bioinformatics related to the support of plant biotechnology. The workshop will produce a whitepaper with recommendations for priority areas of joint collaboration in plant bioinformatics research to be disseminated to the broader scientific community.

生物学已经成为一门信息科学。包括植物生物学在内的所有生物学领域都需要收集、存储、整合、分析、检索和传播信息。在过去的30年里，为了满足这一需求，生物信息学已经成为一个研究领域，包括但不限于数据库的开发、计算分析、算法开发、标准和可视化工具，以存储、处理和可视化生物数据集。到目前为止，这些资源中的许多都集中在基于序列的数据集上，这些数据集构成了可用的高通量分析的大部分，但这种情况正在迅速改变。随着技术的进步和对翻译研究的需求，数据集的类型和大小正在发生变化，扩展将需要新的开发、增加合作和资源投资。在这一要求下，网络基础设施已在几份报告中被确定为未来投资领域，其中包括美国国家科学基金会网络基础设施展望21世纪发现(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp)，国家研究委员会关于《国家植物基因组计划的成就和植物生物学新视野》的报告(http://dels.nas.edu/plant_genome/report.shtml)，国家植物基因组计划五年计划(http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/reports/npgi_five_year_plan_2009_2013.pdf)和欧盟-美国2008年植物生物技术研究。欧共体-美国植物生物技术研究工作组将包括食品、饲料和可再生资源在内的“为植物生物技术建设转化管道”确定为美国和欧共体合作的一个领域。在这一更大的目标范围内，工作组将“网络基础设施”确定为合作的关键领域。为了落实欧共体-美国工作组的建议，一个小型研讨会将召集一个跨学科的科学家小组，讨论生物信息学中与支持植物生物技术有关的现有和未来挑战。研讨会将编写一份白皮书，就植物生物信息学研究中联合协作的优先领域提出建议，并向更广泛的科学界传播。