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

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),
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

9:00 AM Presentation of an ending WG:

Data Federation Training

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

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 anybody to join us.