RAPID: Rapid Creation of a Data Product for the World’s Specimens of Horseshoe Bats and Relatives, a Known Reservoir for Coronaviruses

该奖项授予佛罗里达州立大学，将支持有助于开发世界马蹄蝙蝠及其近亲标本的地理参考、审查和版本数据产品的研究，供研究sars样冠状病毒（包括COVID-19病原体）的起源和传播的研究人员使用。据报道，马蹄蝠和其他密切相关的物种是几种sars样冠状病毒的宿主。这些蝙蝠的种类主要分布在这些病毒已传入人类种群的地区。目前，与这些蝙蝠标本相关的数据保存在全国和全球广泛分布的自然历史收藏中。此外，将这些标本与地点联系起来的信息大多是模糊的，或者在许多情况下缺失。这降低了标本在了解SARS-COV-2和类似病毒的来源、出现和分布方面的效用。该项目将使用扩展标本模型，通过整合与每个蝙蝠标本相关的辅助信息，提供高质量的地理参考数据产品。由此产生的产品将作为一个模型，说明如何利用生物多样性收集的数据来处理人畜共患的新发疾病。该项目的结果将在开放来源期刊、科学会议上以及通过与参与组织和机构有关的网站广泛传播。对该项目的支持提供了一个优化的优质资源，为提高我们对SARS-CoV-2的生物学和传播的理解相关的研究提供信息。总体目标是通过开放存取存储库，以更广泛的研究和生物多样性收集社区使用的格式提供有版本的数据产品；项目协议和代码通过GitHub，并在同行评审的论文中描述；在整个项目中持续参与生物多样性收集工作，将改进后的数据重新纳入当地标本数据管理系统，从而改善长期管理工作。该RAPID奖项将为马蹄蝠和相关物种制作并提供地理参考、经过审查和整合的数据产品，以促进对SARS-CoV-2和相关病毒的来源、分布和传播的了解，及时应对SARS-CoV-2引起的持续全球大流行，并为全球努力整合和提供与了解当前大流行的紧急和其他特性相关的高质量数据做出重要贡献。该RAPID奖由生物基础设施部（DBI）使用《冠状病毒援助、救济和经济安全（CARES）法案》的资金颁发。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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。

The award to Florida State University will support research contributing to the development of georeferenced, vetted, and versioned data products of the world’s specimens of horseshoe bats and their relatives for use by researchers studying the origins and spread of SARS-like coronaviruses, including the causative agent of COVID-19. Horseshoe bats and other closely related species are reported to be reservoirs of several SARS-like coronaviruses. Species of these bats are primarily distributed in regions where these viruses have been introduced to populations of humans. Currently, data associated with specimens of these bats are housed in natural history collections that are widely distributed both nationally and globally. Additionally, information tying these specimens to localities are mostly vague, or in many instances missing. This decreases the utility of the specimens for understanding the source, emergence, and distribution of SARS-COV-2 and similar viruses. This project will provide quality georeferenced data products through the consolidation of ancillary information linked to each bat specimen, using the extended specimen model. The resulting product will serve as a model of how data in biodiversity collections might be used to address emerging diseases of zoonotic origin. Results from the project will be disseminated widely in opensource journals, at scientific meetings, and via websites associated with the participating organizations and institutions. Support of this project provides a quality resource optimized to inform research relevant to improving our understanding of the biology and spread of SARS-CoV-2. The overall objectives are to deliver versioned data products, in formats used by the wider research and biodiversity collections communities, through an open-access repository; project protocols and code via GitHub and described in a peer-reviewed paper, and; sustained engagement with biodiversity collections throughout the project for reintegration of improved data into their local specimen data management systems improving long-term curation.This RAPID award will produce and deliver a georeferenced, vetted and consolidated data product for horseshoe bats and related species to facilitate understanding of the sources, distribution, and spread of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses, a timely response to the ongoing global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 and an important contribution to the global effort to consolidate and provide quality data that are relevant to understanding emergent and other properties the current pandemic. This RAPID award is made by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.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.