Coordination of the multinational Arabidopsis functional genomics research

在拟南芥研究的后测序时代，了解26,000个基因中每个基因的功能的努力正在全球范围内迅速扩大，涉及更多的国家和实验室，这些国家和实验室最初不是更集中的测序工作的一部分。为了促进所有这些全球功能基因组学工作的协调，科学家们呼吁加强跨国科学指导委员会（MSSC），该委员会成立于1990年，目的是协调跨国协调拟南芥基因组研究计划。为了实现这一目标，拟南芥基因组研究项目的北美科学指导委员会将雇用并监督一名全职协调员，作为MSSC与研究界之间沟通的可靠渠道。这个人的具体职责包括：(1)作为MSSC的执行秘书，(2)与TAIR（拟南芥信息资源）一起，开发、维护和更新一个网站，向研究界通报各种大规模的拟南芥功能基因组学研究活动，(3)作为MSSC制作的年度进度报告和其他文件的制作编辑。该协调员将访问世界各地的主要项目地点，并将调查结果传达给MSSC。该奖项将提供两年的资金，以测试这样一个人在协调全球拟南芥功能基因组学活动方面的有效性。北美委员会的两名成员在管理支助委员会任职，将负责监测协调员的活动。

In the post-sequencing era of Arabidopsis research, the effort to understand the function of each and every one of the 26,000 genes is expanding rapidly on a global scale, involving many more countries and laboratories that were not originally part of the more focused sequencing efforts. In order to foster coordination of all of these worldwide functional genomics efforts, scientists have called for strengthening the Multinational Science Steering Committee (MSSC) that was established in 1990 for the purpose of coordinating the Multinational Coordinated Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Research Project. As a means to accomplish this goal, the North American Science Steering Committee for the Arabidopsis genome research project will employ and supervise a fulltime coordinator who would act as a reliable conduit for communications between the MSSC and the research community. Some of the specific duties of this person include: (1) functioning as the executive secretary for the MSSC, (2) together with TAIR (the Arabidopsis Information Resource), develop, maintain and update a website to inform the research community about various large-scale Arabidopsis functional genomics research activities, and (3) being the production editor of an annual progress report and other documents that the MSSC produces. This coordinator is expected to visit major project sites worldwide and communicate the findings to the MSSC. This award will provide two years of funding to test the effectiveness of such a person in coordinating the global Arabidopsis functional genomics activities. Two members of the North American committee serves on the MSSC and will be responsible for monitoring the activities of the coordinator.