AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture

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Title: AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture

Journal Article · 18 September 2018 · Database

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bay088 · OSTI ID:1471253

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.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Contributing Organization:: AgBioData consortium

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1471253

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1490698

Journal Information:: Database, Vol. 2018; ISSN 1758-0463

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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