Conference: U.S. Workshop on DNA Banking - January 2013, St. Louis, Missouri

由密苏里植物园组织的为期两天的美国DNA银行研讨会计划于2013年1月在密苏里州圣路易斯举行。在26名受邀者中，将有来自拥有或缺乏DNA收集的机构；植物学家、动物学家、真菌学家和生物信息学专家，包括所有职业阶段的人，将参加；将邀请大小机构的代表，包括大学和独立的自然历史博物馆和植物标本馆。上午将进行报告，下午将专门用于讨论；18位受邀者将被要求发言。主题将集中在两个主题，最大限度地提高现有DNA收集的效用和效率，以及识别和填补这些收集中最关键的空白。研讨会的目标包括提高对现有DNA资源的认识，确定这些资源在地理和分类上的差距，并制定填补这些差距的战略，以及讨论应适用于所有这些资源的法律、伦理和数据标准。研讨会的成果将由密苏里植物园出版社出版（手稿编辑将在研讨会结束后一年内完成）。

A two-day workshop on DNA banking in the US is planned for January 2013, in St. Louis, Missouri, organized by the Missouri Botanical Garden. Among the 26 invitees will be those from institutions having and lacking DNA collections; botanists, zoologists, mycologists, and specialists in bioinformatics, including people at all career stages, will attend; representatives of large and small institutions, including universities and stand-alone natural history museums and herbaria, will be invited. Presentations will be given in the morning and afternoons will be devoted to discussion; 18 of the invitees will be asked to speak. Topics will focus on two themes, maximizing the utility and efficiency of operation of existing DNA collections, and identifying and filling the most critical gaps in those collections. The objectives of the workshop include improving awareness of existing DNA resources, identifying geographic and taxonomic gaps in those resources and crafting a strategy for filling the gaps, and discussion of what legal, ethical, and data standards should apply to all such resources. The outcomes of the workshop will be published by the Missouri Botanical Garden Press (manuscript editing will be complete within a year of the workshop).