Meeting of US-EU Animal Biotechnology Working Group at Hinxton September 12 -13, 2012 for Strategic Planning on Cyber Infrastructure and Trans-Atlantic Sharing of "Omics" Datasets

该奖项为前往英国Hinxton的牲畜基因组学会议和相关研讨会提供支持。该研讨会将侧重于制定一项战略计划，利用跨大西洋网络基础设施（CI）合作进行“组学”数据共享和创新分析，并为年轻研究人员提供最新生物信息学和CI工具的培训。该提案的另一个新颖方面是将来自许多非模式物种社区的研究人员聚集在一起，讨论可持续的网络基础设施发展。技术突破使“组学”数据集（如基因组学、蛋白质组学、代谢组学）的生产商品化和民主化。对这些大型数据集的分析有助于增强我们对基本生物学机制、物种进化和其他相关主题的理解。美国和欧盟的研究人员在开发这些资源方面发挥着重要作用，探索改善数据共享的机制将是有益的。在英国Hinxton举行的会议将重点关注与共享和分析大型数据集有关的问题，促进美国（iPlant）和欧盟（EBI，ELIXIR和allbio）生物科学主要网络基础设施计划之间的合作。工作组会议将制定指导方针，并探索专门用于动物数据共享的CI连接。这些活动可以被认为是协同的，因为它们适用于处理植物、微生物、昆虫和海洋物种的其他美国-欧盟生物技术工作组。美国-欧盟ABWG成员将帮助制定一项战略计划，而CI和生物信息学工具的培训部分将有助于发展研究生，博士后和年轻研究人员，特别是少数民族和妇女的计算优势。为了扩大会议的成果和讨论范围，差旅费资助接受者将在会后提交一份传播计划。受邀者包括动物基因组学领域的既有领导者，也有新兴领导者，这些领导者在科学和文化上都具有多样性。奖励资金的很大一部分将用于支持优秀研究生和博士后的旅行。参加研讨会将有助于扩大多样性，鼓励年轻科学家继续从事科学事业，并开始将网络基础设施、数据共享和生物信息学范式纳入生物实验室。

This award provides support for travel to the Livestock Genomics meeting and associated workshops at Hinxton, UK. The workshop will focus on developing a strategic plan for "omics" data sharing and innovative analysis using trans-Atlantic cyber infrastructure (CI) collaborations and also provide training of young investigators on the latest bioinformatics and CI tools. An additional novel aspect of this proposal is to bring together researchers from a number of non-model species communities, to discuss sustainable cyber infrastructure development. Technological breakthroughs have commoditized and democratized production of "omics" datasets (such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics). Analyses of these large datasets are helping in enhancing our understanding of basic biological mechanisms, species evolution, and a full range of other related topics. US and EU researchers are playing the major role in developing these resources and it will be useful to explore mechanisms for improved data sharing. The meeting at Hinxton, UK will focus on the issues related to sharing and analysis of large datasets by fostering collaborations between major cyber infrastructure initiatives in biological sciences from US (iPlant) and EU,(EBI, ELIXIR and allbio). The working group meeting will develop guidelines and explore CI connectivity specifically for data sharing in animals. These activities can be considered synergistic as they are applicable to other US-EU biotechnology working groups dealing with plants, microbes, insects, and marine species. The US-EU ABWG members will help develop a strategic plan whereas the training component of CI and bioinformatics tools will help develop computational strengths among graduate students, post docs, and young investigators especially those from minorities and women. To extend the outcomes and discussion from the meeting, travel support recipients will present a plan for dissemination following the meeting. The invitees include both established and emerging leaders in animal genomics that are both scientifically and culturally diverse. A significant portion of the award funds will be used to support travel for meritorious graduate students and post-docs. Participation in the workshop will help expand diversity and encourage young scientists to stay in science careers and begin to integrate cyber infrastructure, data sharing and bioinformatic paradigms into biology laboratories.