Open AccessStandards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project
Author(s) -
Mara K. N. Lawniczak,
Richard Durbin,
Paul Flicek,
Kerstin LindbladToh,
Xiaofeng Wei,
John M. Archibald,
William J. Baker,
Katherine Belov,
Mark Blaxter,
Tomàs MarquèsBonet,
Anna K. Childers,
Jonathan A. Coddington,
Keith A. Crandall,
Andrew J. Crawford,
Robert Davey,
Federica Di Palma,
Qi Fang,
Wilfried Haerty,
Neil Hall,
Katharina J. Hoff,
Kerstin Howe,
Erich D. Jarvis,
Warren E. Johnson,
Rebecca N. Johnson,
Paul J. Kersey,
Xin Liu,
Jose V. Lopez,
Eugene W. Myers,
Olga Vinnere Pettersson,
Adam M. Phillippy,
Monica F. Poelchau,
Kim D. Pruitt,
Arang Rhie,
Juan Carlos CastillaRubio,
Huan Liu,
Nicholas A. Salmon,
Pamela S. Soltis,
David Swarbreck,
Françoise ThibaudNissen,
Sibo Wang,
Jill L. Wegrzyn,
Guojie Zhang,
He Zhang,
Harris A. Lewin,
Stephen Richards
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.2115639118
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , informatics , computer science , knowledge management , engineering management , data science , political science , engineering , management , law , economics
A global international initiative, such as the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), requires both agreement and coordination on standards to ensure that the collective effort generates rapid progress toward its goals. To this end, the EBP initiated five technical standards committees comprising volunteer members from the global genomics scientific community: Sample Collection and Processing, Sequencing and Assembly, Annotation, Analysis, and IT and Informatics. The current versions of the resulting standards documents are available on the EBP website, with the recognition that opportunities, technologies, and challenges may improve or change in the future, requiring flexibility for the EBP to meet its goals. Here, we describe some highlights from the proposed standards, and areas where additional challenges will need to be met.