Table 1. List of communities, their missions, and community representative, in the order in which they were presented at the first BioSharing workshop.
Community | Scope and mission | Presenting community representative |
|---|---|---|
Genomic Standards Consortium http://gensc.org/ | standards for describing genomes, metagenomes and gene marker sequences | Dawn Field (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) [9] |
The HUPO Proteomics Standards Intiative (PSI) http://www.psidev.info/ | standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification | Sandra Orchard (European Bioinformatics Institute) [10] |
MIBBI http://mibbi.org/ | brings together over 30 checklist communities | Chris Taylor (European Bioinformatics Institute) [5] |
The OBO Foundry http://www.obofoundry.org/ | goal of creating a suite of orthogonal, interoperable reference ontologies | Suzi Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) [6] |
International Society for Biocuration (ISB) http://www.biocurator.org | promoting the work of biocurators both to users of the curated biological databases and to the funding agencies. | Pascale Gaudet (Northwestern University/Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) [11] |
The Data Conservancy http://www.dataconservancy.org | promote data sharing and reuse across the spectrum of biology in alignment with the NSF | Anne Thessen (Woods Hole) |
The Standards in Genomic Sciences journal http://standardsingenomics.org/ | an open-access, standards-supportive journal for rapid dissemination of range of article types | George Garrity (Michigan State University) [12] |
Science Commons http://sciencecommons.org/ | design strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled scientific research. | Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons) |
The ISA Infrastructure http://www.isa-tools.org | open source software suite for data sharing of experimental metadata | Philippe Rocca-Serra (University of Oxford) [13] |
The Dryad Digital Repository: Published data as part of the greater data ecosystem http://datadryad.org/ | digital data repository for basic and applied biosciences | Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) [4] |
National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) http://www.bioontology.org/ | create software and Web services for the application of principled ontologies in biomedical science | Nigam Shah (Stanford University) |
Digital Biology Foundation: open software community in life sciences http://digibio.org/ | foundation to support for the intersection of life sciences and software development | Brian Bramlett, (Lux Bio Group) |