Title
AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture
Campus Units
Animal Science, Computer Science, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
Database
Volume
2018
First Page
bay088
DOI
10.1093/database/bay088
Abstract
The future of agricultural research depends on data. The sheer volume of agricultural biological data being produced today makes excellent data management essential. Governmental agencies, publishers and science funders require data management plans for publicly funded research. Furthermore, the value of data increases exponentially when they are properly stored, described, integrated and shared, so that they can be easily utilized in future analyses. AgBioData (https://www.agbiodata.org) is a consortium of people working at agricultural biological databases, data archives and knowledgbases who strive to identify common issues in database development, curation and management, with the goal of creating database products that are more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We strive to promote authentic, detailed, accurate and explicit communication between all parties involved in scientific data. As a step toward this goal, we present the current state of biocuration, ontologies, metadata and persistence, database platforms, programmatic (machine) access to data, communication and sustainability with regard to data curation. Each section describes challenges and opportunities for these topics, along with recommendations and best practices.
Rights
Works produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Harper, Lisa; Campbell, Jacqueline; Cannon, Ethalinda K. S.; Poelchau, Monica; Andorf, Carson; Birkett, Clayton; Cannon, Steve; Grant, David; Hu, Zhi-Liang; Lazo, Gerard; Nelson, Rex; Park, Carissa; Reecy, James; Sen, Taner Z.; Ware, Doreen; Woodhouse, Margaret; and et al., "AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture" (2018). Animal Science Publications. 432.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ans_pubs/432
Included in
Agriculture Commons, Animal Sciences Commons, Bioinformatics Commons, Computational Biology Commons
Comments
This article is published as Harper,L., Campbell,J., Cannon,E.K.S. et al. AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture. Database (2018) Vol. 2018: article ID bay088; doi: 10.1093/database/bay088.