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Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources: the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future

Doherty, Colleen; Friesner, Joanna; Gregory, Brian; Loraine, Ann; Megraw, Molly; Meyers, Blake; Provart, Nicholas; Keith Slotkin, R.; Town, Chris; Assmann, Sarah; Axtell, Michael; Berardini, Tanya; Chen, Sixue; Gehan, Malia; Huala, Eva; Jaiswal, Pankaj; Larson, Stephen; Li, Song; May, Sean; Michael, Todd; Pires, J.; Topp, Christopher; Walley, Justin; Wurtele, Eve

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Authors

Colleen Doherty

Joanna Friesner

Brian Gregory

Ann Loraine

Molly Megraw

Blake Meyers

Nicholas Provart

R. Keith Slotkin

Chris Town

Sarah Assmann

Michael Axtell

Tanya Berardini

Sixue Chen

Malia Gehan

Eva Huala

Pankaj Jaiswal

Stephen Larson

Song Li

Todd Michael

J. Pires

Christopher Topp

Justin Walley

Eve Wurtele



Abstract

Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resources include reference genome sequence data and an ever-increasing number of diverse data sets and data types. TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) and Araport (originally named the Arabidopsis Information Portal) are community informatics resources that provide tools, data, and applications to the more than 30,000 researchers worldwide that use in their work either Arabidopsis as a primary system of study or data derived from Arabidopsis. Four years after Araport’s establishment, the IAIC held another workshop to evaluate the current status of Arabidopsis Informatics and chart a course for future research and development. The workshop focused on several challenges, including the need for reliable and current annotation, community-defined common standards for data and metadata, and accessible and user-friendly repositories / tools / methods for data integration and visualization. Solutions envisioned included (1) a centralized annotation authority to coalesce annotation from new groups, establish a consistent naming scheme, distribute this format regularly and frequently, and encourage and enforce its adoption. (2) Standards for data and metadata formats, which are essential, but challenging when comparing across diverse genotypes and in areas with less-established standards (e.g. phenomics, metabolomics). Community-established guidelines need to be developed. (3) A searchable, central repository for analysis and visualization tools. Improved versioning and user access would make tools more accessible. Workshop participants proposed a “one-stop shop” website, an Arabidopsis “Super-Portal” to link tools, data resources, programmatic standards, and best practice descriptions for each data type. This must have community buy-in and participation in its establishment and development to encourage adoption.

Citation

Doherty, C., Friesner, J., Gregory, B., Loraine, A., Megraw, M., Meyers, B., …Wurtele, E. (2019). Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources: the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future. Plant Direct, 3(1), Article e00109. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.109

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 3, 2018
Online Publication Date Jan 4, 2019
Publication Date Jan 4, 2019
Deposit Date Dec 4, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Plant Direct
Electronic ISSN 2475-4455
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 1
Article Number e00109
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.109
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1363304
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pld3.109

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