A community resource for wheat functional genomics

英国的小麦研究资源目前是孤立的，并根据内部需求量身定做。因此，它们往往是外部世界看不见或无法接触到的。在小麦社区、Mongraph(由Rothamsted、Iger、JIC和SCRI组成)、小麦遗传改良网络(WGIN)和小谷物网络(SGCN)的支持下，我们建议启动一个过程，将这些资源集中在一个保护伞下，即现有的SGCN及其相关网站。我们的方法将组织英国的小麦工具和资源，使所有人都可以访问它们，同时采用“客户至上”的方法，即新SGCN网站的用户需要执行单一搜索，而不考虑资源的物理位置。根据申请的资源，布里斯托尔小组将监督通过SGCN网站提供现有生物/生物信息学资源和若干新资源的过程。这一过程将形成SGCN网站的初始资源“模块”，随着时间的推移，将鼓励社区的其他成员根据BBSRC最近推出的数据共享政策添加到这些模块中。考虑到所有植物科学家面临的全球挑战，我们认为这项提议代表着英国小麦社区作为一个一体化社区团结一致、面向未来的最佳机会。

UK-based resources for wheat research are currently isolated and tailored to 'in-house' needs. As such they are often invisible to or inaccessible by the outside world. With the backing of the wheat community, Monogram (consisting of Rothamsted, IGER, JIC and SCRI), the Wheat Genetic Improvement Network (WGIN) and the Small Grain Cereal Network (SGCN), we propose to initiate a process which brings together these resources under one umbrella namely the existing SGCN and its associated web site. Our approach will organise the UK's wheat tools and resources such that they become accessible to all, while having a 'customer first' approach whereby users of the new SGCN site need to perform single searches regardless of the resources' physical location. With the resources requested the Bristol group will oversee the process whereby both its current biological/bioinformatics' resources and several new resources become available via the SGCN web site. This process will form the initial resource 'modules' of the SGCN web site to which other members of the community will be encouraged to add to over time in line with BBSRC's recently launched data sharing policy. Given the global challenges facing all plant scientists we believe that this proposal represents the best opportunity yet for the UK wheat community to work as one and face the future as an integrated community.