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 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.
Highlights
We are in an exciting time in Biology
Tutorials covering all aspects of data management, including file formats, the collection and publishing of high value metadata along with data, interacting with GGB databases, how to attach a license to your data, how to ensure your data stays with your publication and more will be useful training tools
To enable all GGB databases to help their stakeholders utilize the increasingly complex biological data within and across the databases, we need to work together to adopt a common set of metadata, ontologies and communication practices; make it easy to share data; share curation practices; use common software platforms and components where reasonable; and provide solutions for longterm funding
Summary
We are in an exciting time in Biology. Genomic discovery on a large scale is cheaper, easier and faster than ever. Tutorials covering all aspects of data management, including file formats, the collection and publishing of high value metadata along with data, interacting with GGB databases, how to attach a license to your data, how to ensure your data stays with your publication and more will be useful training tools. This information can be presented as short online videos or FAQs and as live presentations to researchers. The curation tools for GO annotation include TAIR’s in-house curation tool PubSearch [35] and TAIR’s community portal the Online Annotation Submission Tool (TOAST) [18], PomBase’s Canto [36], the GO consortium’s Noctua (http://noctua.berkeleybop.org) and Table Editor (http://bit.ly/table-editor) (Table 3)
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