Title
AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture.
Abstract
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 datamanagement 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1093/database/bay088
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
Field
DocType
Volume
Biological data,Metadata,Best practice,Computer science,Interoperability,Biological database,Data curation,Data management,Data access,Database
Journal
2018
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1758-0463
3
0.40
References 
Authors
43
52