2025 AgBioData Community Workshop
Dates: May 14-15, 2025
Location: Virtual
Workshop Description
This two-day meeting featured presentations from current AgBioData working groups (WGs) about their accomplishments and recommendations, breakout room discussions on data-related issues, and discussions on the role of artificial intelligence and the long-term financial sustainability of the database ecosystem. Below, you can see a draft of the workshop agenda.
Agenda (All times are in Central Time - CT)
May 14, 2025 - DAY 1 (Recording available here)
9:00 AM Introduction & Logistics
9:10 AM Kirti Rajagopalan (Washington State University), "The AgAID Institute: Building a Resilient Future for Agriculture using AI"
9:50 AM Q&A
10:00 AM Presentations of current WGs:
- FAIR Scientific Literature, Daniela Raciti (California Institute of Technology), "FAIR from the Start: Empowering Data Sharing in Agricultural Research" | Slides |
- Natural Language Processing for Biocuration, Tanya Berardini (TAIR), "NLP4Biocuration: Getting going with AI" | Slides |
- Phenotypic Data Standardization and Management, Jinha Jung (Purdue University), "Progress and Milestones - Phenotyping Data Management & Standardization"
- scRNA-Seq Biocuration, Sunita Kumari (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Designing FAIR Metadata Workflows for Agricultural Single-Cell Transcriptomics | Slides |
- Standards for Genetic Variation, Marcela Tello-Ruiz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Standards for Genetic Variation: Promoting the Use of Reference Identifiers for Genetic Markers in Agricultural Research | Slides |
- Sustainability, Dorrie Main (Washington State University), "Securing the Critical Role of AgBioData Consortium Databases" | Slides |
11:00 AM Break
11:05 AM Breakout Room Session
11:55 AM Short reports from the breakout rooms and final remarks
May 15, 2024 - DAY 2 (Recording available here)
9:00 AM Introduction
9:05 AM Kimberley Van Auken (California Institute of Technology), "Alliance of Genome Resources: A Lesson in Resource Integration and Sustainability" | Slides |
9:45 AM Q&A
10:00 AM Panel discussion, "The future of the database ecosystem: technologies and funding", with
- Dorrie Main (Washington State University)
- Kimberley Van Auken (California Institute of Technology)
- David Carr (Global Biodata Coalition)
- Sushma Naithani (Oregon State University)
11:00 AM 2025 AgBioData Awards Ceremony
11:10 AM Community Listening: "Current funding and impacts on AgBioData community resources"
12:30 PM Ending
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