Proposal for a Workshop on Reducing Barriers for the Management, Integration, and Public Sharing of Large and Complex Data among Biologists Working at Genome-Phenome to Macrosystem

美国生物科学研究所(EF-1450894)将为来自植物科学和环境宏观系统的生物学家召开一次研讨会，讨论公众获取联邦资助研究的问题。研讨会的重点将是与研究相关的挑战，这些研究需要综合来自多个来源的数据来进行研究。对于需要并产生大量复杂数据的生物学研究界来说，考虑数据管理实践和问题的必要性尤其紧迫，特别是当所产生的数据将用于未来研究时。虽然不同的生物学领域可能需要不同的数据，但这些研究社区面临着共同(和独特的)问题，涉及管理和整合这些复杂的数据，遵守标准和要求，以及他们如何通过联邦税收改善其科学及其对普通公众的持续有用性。大系统生物学社区致力于对生物圈过程及其与气候、土地利用和入侵物种在区域到大陆尺度上的复杂相互作用进行定量、跨学科、面向系统的研究。系统学、进化生物学和生物收藏界也在努力应对“大数据”和“长尾数据”问题。基因组到表现组社区的工作学科包括但不限于植物生理学、数量遗传学、生物化学和生物工程，特别是在具有重要经济意义的植物中。这次研讨会具有广泛的深远影响，因为来自不同领域的研究人员相互学习彼此的数据、工具和技术，新的科学问题和机会有望出现，其中许多是以前独立的学术路线的交叉点。再加上更多的公众访问，这些结果可以刺激新的私营部门创新，并有助于新的科学发现，因为不同的研究社区访问其他学科收集的数据。研讨会的结果和进一步跨学科合作的计划将在一篇公开可访问的文章中分享，这篇文章将发表在《生物科学》杂志上。

AbstractTitle: Proposal for a Workshop on Reducing Barriers for the Management, Integration, and Public Sharing of Large and Complex Data among Biologists Working at Genome-Phenome to Macrosystems Levels (EF-1450894)American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) will convene a workshop for biologists from plant sciences and environmental macrosystems to discuss public access to federally funded research. The workshop will focus on challenges associated with research that requires combining data from multiple sources to conduct the research. The need to consider data management practices and problems is especially pressing for research communities in biology that require and generate large complex data, particularly when the resulting data will be used for future research. While different fields of biology may require different data these same research communities have common (and unique) issues they face related to managing and integrating these complex data, complying with standards and requirements, and how they can improve their science and its ongoing usefulness to the general public that support it through federal tax dollars.The macrosystems biology community works on quantitative, interdisciplinary, systems-oriented research on biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use, and invasive species at regional to continental scales. The systematics, evolutionary biology, and biological collections communities are also grappling with "big data" and "long tail data" issues. The genome-to-phenome community works in disciplines that include, but are not limited to, plant physiology, quantitative genetics, biochemistry, and bioengineering, especially in plants of economic importance.This workshop has broad reaching implications as researchers from different fields learn of each other's data, tools, and techniques, new scientific questions and opportunities can be expected to emerge, many at the intersection of previously independent lines of scholarship. Coupled with increased public access, the results can stimulate new private sector innovations and contribute to new scientific discoveries as different research communities access data collected by other disciplines. Results of the workshop and plans for further cross-disciplinary collaboration will be shared in a publicly accessible article that will be placed in the BioScience journal.