Collaborative Research: Revolutionizing Systematics - Revitalizing Monographs

分类学专著是对生物群的全面论述，包括对物种外观的描述、对其地理范围的估计、其划界的基本原理以及其谱系关系和多样化模式的细节。生物学家和非专家均可使用分类学专著中所载的生物多样性关键基线数据。虽然系统生物学研究的其他方面已经采用了尖端的方法和分析管道，但许多专著的制作和出版与几十年来一样。 该项目将支持举办一系列讲习班，使系统生物学界参与进来，并确定振兴分类学专著并使之现代化的战略。 四个研讨会将确定并纳入计算，数据可视化和工作流程的创新，为专题研究面临的系统和科学挑战提供解决方案。讲习班将促进对话和建立合作，这将加强和扩大专著的做法。参加讲习班的邀请将张贴在有系统生物学家成员的专业学会的网站上，挑选参加者的目标是在专业知识、职业阶段、性别和种族多样性方面达到广度。 讲习班的成果将通过科学出版物和网站广泛和自由传播，这些讲习班的目的是发挥分类学专著成为联系和综合生物多样性信息的中心枢纽的潜力，更好地获得详细的表型和地理数据，更动态、细致和综合的分类学，以及关于生物体、其属性、及其多样化。除了刺激系统学家之间的互动谁进行专题研究在不同的分类组和系统学家谁的工作问题是或可以集成到专题论文，这些研讨会将从事数据库科学家，计算生物学家，软件开发人员和其他社区，以找到新的解决方案，数据访问和集成的挑战。 这些研讨会将最终综合和巩固在以前的研讨会上提出的想法，旨在建立可以由更广泛的系统生物学家社区测试和改进的工具，工作流程和结构的原型。将被整合到专著中的技术和概念发展将使专著的数据在各个领域更容易获得和更有影响力，以及通过吸引数据库科学家，计算科学家，软件开发人员将支持长期-术语和创新的解决方案，利用分类学专著的综合和全面的观点。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Taxonomic monographs are comprehensive treatments of organismal groups that include descriptions of the appearance of species, estimates of their geographical range, rationale for their delimitation, and details of their genealogical relationships and patterns of diversification. The critical baseline data on biodiversity included in taxonomic monographs can be used by biologists and non-experts alike. While other aspects of systematic biology research have embraced cutting-edge methodologies and analysis pipelines, many monographs are produced and published the same as they have been for decades. This project will support a series of workshops to engage the systematic biology community and identify strategies to reinvigorate and modernize taxonomic monographs. Four workshops will identify and incorporate innovations in computing, data visualization, and workflows to provide solutions to systemic and scientific challenges facing monographic research. The workshops will catalyze conversations and build collaborations that will strengthen and broaden the practice of monography. Invitations to participate in the workshops will be posted on the websites of professional societies with systematic biologist members, and participants will be selected with the goal of achieving breadth in expertise, career stage, gender and ethnic diversity. Products resulting from the workshops will be broadly and freely disseminated via scientific publications and websites.These workshops aim to realize the potential for taxonomic monographs to become central hubs that link and synthesize biodiversity information, with improved access to detailed phenotypic and geographic data, more dynamic, nuanced, and integrated taxonomies, and fully explicit, accessible, and testable hypotheses about organisms, their attributes, and their diversification. In addition to stimulating interactions among systematists who conduct monographic studies in diverse taxonomic groups and among systematists who work on questions that are or could be integrated into monographs, these workshops will engage the community of database scientists, computational biologist, software developers, and others to find novel solutions to the challenges of data access and integration. The workshops will culminate in a synthesis and consolidation of the ideas developed in the preceding workshops, aimed at building prototypes of tools, workflows, and structures that can be tested and improved by the broader community of systematic biologists. The technological and conceptual developments that will be integrated into monography will make the data of monographs more accessible and impactful across fields, and the interdisciplinarity that will be fostered by engaging database scientists, computational scientists, and software developers will support long-term and innovative solutions that capitalize on the integrative and comprehensive perspectives of taxonomic monographs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.