Reminder: Submit Your Comments to FFAR's Data Solutions for Accelerating
Climate-Smart Agriculture RFI
The deadline to submit comments for the Foundation for Food & Agriculture
Research's
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(FFAR) Request for Information
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(RFI)
that supports advancing data solutions to accelerate climate-smart
agriculture adoption is December 21, 2022.
FFAR is issuing a RFI to explore investments that can increase the use of
FAIR
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(Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data in agricultural research, with a
specific emphasis on climate-smart mitigation and adaptation research
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initiative. With sufficient volume of relevant standardized and
interoperable data, agricultural sciences can apply advanced data analytics
to address the challenges facing agricultural producers.
FFAR encourages comments from scientists studying agricultural systems and
agronomic practices, experts in agricultural data or privacy, developers of
metric and digital tools to support on-farm decision-making, and developers
and managers of digital data repositories with agricultural and
environmental data.
For more information, and to respond to this RFI, visit the Data Solutions
for Accelerating Climate-Smart Agriculture Open Opportunity RFI webpage.
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builds public-private partnerships to fund bold research addressing big
food and agriculture challenges. FFAR was established in the 2014 Farm Bill
to increase public agriculture research investments, fill knowledge gaps
and complement USDA’s research agenda. FFAR’s model matches federal funding
from Congress with private funding, delivering a powerful return on
taxpayer investment. Through collaboration and partnerships, FFAR advances
actionable science benefiting farmers, consumers and the environment.
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Hi everybody,
This is a friendly reminder of our webinar tomorrow (*December 7th).* We
will have Sushma Naithani <http://naithanilab.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/> from
Oregon State University talking about Plant Reactome
<https://plantreactome.gramene.org/index.php?lang=en>, a platform that
allows the integration of OMICs data for the biocuration of plant genes and
pathways.
Below you can find more details about the webinar and the zoom link to
attend the webinar.
We hope you will join us.
Best,
Annarita
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Presenters: Dr. Sushma Naithani, Oregon State University
Host: Dr. Monica Poelchau
Abstract:
*Plant Reactome: Using OMICs data for biocuration of plant genes and
pathways*
The major challenge in analyzing and connecting genotype to phenotype data
at the organismal level is their integration and visualization for
knowledge synthesis, which is required for generating OMICs data-driven
predictive models for precision breeding of crops as well as accessing the
needs of conservation of biodiversity and long-term sustainability. The
Plant Reactome (https://plantreactome.gramene.org) is one such platform
that allows integration of data from heterogeneous sources (i.e., published
literature, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome data, orthology-based
projections) for synthesizing in silico modeling of system-level plant
pathway networks including metabolic pathways, biological processes
associated with plant development and reproduction, and genetic-regulatory
mechanisms that mediate plant survival under varied stress conditions. It
provides a valuable framework for understanding how a gene, a group of
connected genes, or genotypic differences culminate into a phenotype and
supports the generation of data-driven hypotheses for understanding the
intra-and -inter-species differences for basic and translational research
and precision breeding. Here, we emphasize our recent efforts in using
Omics data for improving gene/gene family functional annotations and
biocuration of gene-gene networks.
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Hi everybody,
If you haven't done yet, you are still on time to *join the new AgBioData
working groups*! They will focus on and address* data-related issues and
priorities* raised by the AgBioData community, such as
- data federation training
- data reuse
- database financial sustainability
- diversity, equity, and inclusion in ag research
- FAIR scientific literature and biocuration
- public genetic resources management
Each working group has a set of achievable goals and deliverables and
has a *6-12
month duration* (except for the *Sustainability*, *FAIR Scientific
Literature*, and *DEI Recruiting* working groups, which will have a 2-year
mandate with the possibility for their members to rotate off after a year).
We anticipate that the commitment will generally be *between 2-6 hours per
month*, including meeting attendance and offline work (e.g., literature,
writing, etc.).
This is your opportunity to shape the future of our research community by
contributing to developing best practices of data archiving and management
that can benefit you and all the other stakeholders. Participating in the
AgBioData working groups will also offer you opportunities for
- *professional networking*
- *leadership skill development*
- *authorship in impactful manuscripts*
Please join one or more of our working groups here
<https://forms.gle/ue662FBGLXaVyY1eA>, or share with anybody that can be
interested!
Best regards,
Annarita
