2024 AgBioData Community Workshop

2024 AgBioData Community Workshop

Dates: April 29-30, May 2, 2024

Location: Virtual
 

Workshop Description

This three-day meeting will feature presentations from ending and current AgBioData working groups (WGs) about their accomplishments and recommendations, breakout room discussions on data-related issues, and updates on the consortium's future. Below, you can see a draft of the workshop agenda.

Agenda (All times are in the Central Time - CT)

April 29, 2024 - DAY 1 (recording available here)

9:00 AM    Introduction & Logistics
9:10 AM    Presentation of an ending WG:

• Genome Assembly and Annotation Nomenclature: Ethy Cannon (USDA ARS), "Genome assembly and annotation nomenclature"

9:25 AM    Presentations of two active WGs:

• Education (EWG): Megan O'Donnell (Iowa State University), "Open Educational Resources to unite FAIR Data and GGB Databases"
• Standards for Genetic Variation (SGV): Timothee Cezard (EMBL-EBI), "Standards for Genetic Variation - promoting identifiers to improve FAIRness"

9:55 AM    Break
10:00 AM  Breakout Rooms: the Education and SGV WGs will meet, allowing other WG and non-WG members to join the discussion and get public feedback on topics of interest
10:45 AM Short reports from the breakout rooms and final remarks

April 30, 2024 - DAY 2 (recording available here)

9:00 AM    Presentation of an ending WG:

• Data Federation Training: Peter Selby (Cornell University), "How to Implement Practical Data Federation: Technology Review and Training Material"

9:15 AM    Presentations of two active WGs:

• scRNAseq Biocuration (scRNA-bio): Sunita Kumari (Cold Spring Harbor), "Standardizing scRNAseq metadata of plants and animals to promote FAIRification"
• Sustainability: Josh Young (Phoenix Bioinformatics), "Updates from the Sustainability WG"

9:45 AM    AgBioData Awards Ceremony
9:55 AM    Break
10:00 AM  Breakout Rooms: the scRNA-bio and Sustainability WGs will meet, allowing other WG and non-WG members to join the discussion and get public feedback on topics of interest
10:45 AM Short reports from the breakout rooms and final remarks

May 2, 2024 - DAY 3 (recording available here)

9:00 AM    Presentation of an ending WG:

• Data Reuse: James Koltes (Iowa State University), "Perspectives on how to improve sequence data reuse from AgBioData’s data reuse working group"

9:15 AM    Presentations of three active WGs:

• Phenotypic Data Standardization and Management (PDSM), Jinha Jung (Purdue University), "Furthering the Phenotyping Data Ecosystem for Genetic/Genomic Discovery"
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Recruiting (DEIR), John McNamara (Washington State University), "How do we address all the aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in AgBioData?"
• FAIR Scientific Literature (FSL), Karen Yook (Caltech), "FAIR Scientific Literature (FSL) Working Group Update"

10:00 AM  Breakout Rooms: the PDSM, DEIR, and FSL WGs will meet, allowing other WG and non-WG members to join the discussion and get public feedback on topics of interest
10:45 AM  Short reports from the breakout rooms
11:00 AM  Closing remarks and discussion about the future of AgBioData
This 30' section will feature a presentation from the SC member, Leonore Reiser, on the future steps of AgBioData, followed by a virtual round-table on future possible directions and grant opportunities for the consortium. We invite everybody to join us.