EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Engaging the Ocean Science -Omics Community to Archive, Access, and Analyze Massively Parallel Environmental Genomic Data

EarthCube 域最终用户研讨会：让海洋科学组学社区参与归档、访问和分析大规模并行环境基因组数据

• 批准号: 1341418
• 负责人: Katrina Edwards
• 金额: $ 9.49万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1341418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Domain; End; User; Workshop

Genomics, bioinformatics, and allied technologies are having wide-sweeping and dramatic impact on observation and experimentation in ocean science. "Omics" technologies and approaches are being rapidly adopted and employed by the ocean science research community. "Omics" are being broadly and effectively used in areas that include mapping the distributions of taxa and biogeography, time series analyses and biogeochemistry, regional process studies, assessing environmental change and anthropogenic impacts, and ecosystem modeling. Rapidly evolving technologies combined with exponentially decreasing costs have "democratized" DNA sequencing and are enabling the generation of massive ocean "omic" datasets by individual researchers, and collaborative efforts by the ocean science community as a whole. These massive "omic" datasets and their associated metadata require new cyberinfrastructures (CI) that can coordinate and facilitate data and metadata access, analyses, and modeling. The NSF EarthCube initiative recently solicited proposals for domain workshops "designed to listen to the needs of the end-user groups that make up the geosciences and to understand better how data-enabled science can help them achieve their scientific goals." This workshop will bring together ocean scientists and computer scientists to inform and engage them about EarthCube activities with the following objectives:1. Inform and engage 40-45 ocean scientists with CI experience and/or needs, and explore potential Earth cube opportunities to help solve common CI challenges and needs for ocean "omic" data mining and analyses.2. Inform and engage 10-15 bioinformatic and CI scientists about ocean "omics" needs and applications and opportunities in EarthCube activities to help address them.The overall goal of the workshop would be to develop a set of unifying CI requirements of ocean "omic" scientists, that could integrate their data and efforts, and connect and engage both domain and cyber scientists to pursue cyber solutions for ocean "omics" analyses.Intellectual Merit :The workshop will engage of a broad "omic" data user group in the ocean science community that stands to benefit from understanding new cyber-infrastructure possibilities, envisioning present and future solutions to their current needs and engaging in the EarthCube process. The EarthCube cyberscience community will benefit from understanding the challenges and needs of a broad, rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary group of ocean science omic and environmental data users.Broader Impacts :Cyber-infrastructure developed for ocean "omic" scientists have potential for broad public impact. Examples include improved infrastructures to develop more accurate climate models that incorporate biological processes, improve our understanding of the effects of environmental change, expand our knowledge of life in extreme habitats, and better assess ecosystem structure, function and dynamics.

基因组学，生物信息学和相关技术对海洋科学的观察和实验产生了广泛的影响。海洋科学研究界正在迅速采用和采用“ OMICS”技术和方法。 “ OMICS”广泛有效地用于绘制分类单元和生物地理学，时间序列分析和生物地球化学，区域过程研究，评估环境变化和人为影响的影响以及生态系统建模的领域。迅速发展的技术与成倍降低的成本相结合，已经“民主化”了DNA测序，并使个别研究人员和整个海洋科学界的合作努力使大规模的海洋“ Omic”数据集创造了大规模的海洋“ Omic”数据集。这些庞大的“ OMIC”数据集及其相关的元数据需要新的网络基础结构（CI），以协调和促进数据和元数据访问，分析和建模。 NSF EarthCube倡议最近征求了针对领域研讨会的建议，“旨在倾听构成地球科学的最终用户群体的需求，并更好地了解数据支持数据的科学如何帮助他们实现其科学目标”。该研讨会将汇集海洋科学家和计算机科学家，以以下目标为他们提供有关EarthCube活动的信息：1。通知并参与40-45个海洋科学家，具有CI经验和/或需求，并探索潜在的地球立方体机会，以帮助解决海洋“ OMIC”数据挖掘和分析的常见CI挑战和需求。2。告知并参与10-15的生物信息学和CI科学家有关海洋“ OMICS”的需求，应用以及在Earthcube活动中的需求以及机会，以帮助解决这些问题。研讨会的总体目标是开发一套统一的CI海洋“ Omic”科学家的CI要求，这可以整合他们的数据和努力，并连接并参与域名和网络科学家，以寻求海洋“ Omics”分析的网络解决方案。IntlectualFure：研讨会将在海洋科学社区中参与广泛的“ Omic”数据用户组这将受益于理解新的网络基础建筑可能性，设想当前和未来的解决方案，以满足其当前需求并参与EarthCube过程。 EarthCube网络科学社区将受益于了解广泛，快速发展的，多学科的海洋科学和环境数据使用者的挑战和需求。Broader的影响：为海洋开发的“ OMIC”科学家开发的网络基础设施具有广泛的公众影响的潜力。例子包括改进的基础设施，以开发更准确的气候模型，这些模型结合生物学过程，提高我们对环境变化影响的理解，扩大我们对极端栖息地的生活知识，并更好地评估生态系统结构，功能和动态。