Hi everybody,
The AgBioData steering committee (SC) is calling for nominations for new SC
members!
The SC is a vibrant, collaborative, and inclusive environment that offers
opportunities to expand your leadership skills, network with agricultural
research community stakeholders, and help achieve a FAIR agricultural data
ecosystem. *We are looking for candidates to serve as members of the
AgBioData SC willing to commit a proportion of time to AgBioData activities
(approximately 2 hours/week) for a term of 3 years. *
*Nominate yourself or somebody you think might fit the position by this
Friday, November 3rd at https://forms.gle/jVN6GZvbhS5QnJkB7
<https://forms.gle/jVN6GZvbhS5QnJkB7>.*
Best,
Annarita
Hi everybody,
Join us *TOMORROW, Nov. 1st, at 12 PM CT* for our monthly webinar. We will
host Ben Rosen
<https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/beltsville-agric…>,
who will talk about telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies of ruminant
species and how they will help answer important evolutionary questions.
I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to
attend the webinar.
I hope you will join us.
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Annarita
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*Presenters: * Ben Rosen, USDA-ARS
*Abstract:*
*The Ruminant T2T Consortium*
The first draft of the human genome assembly was released over twenty years
ago. However, a gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) “complete” assembly
remained elusive until last year. The highly repetitive nature of
pericentromeric, subtelomeric, and duplicated gene families, such as rRNA
arrays, made them impossible to assemble. It was only with advances in
long-read sequencing technologies and new bioinformatic tools that these
structures were resolved. Recently, we proposed the application of these
new resources, tools, and knowledge in support of a “Ruminant T2T
Consortium.” Our goal is to generate complete genomes for the ruminant
evolutionary lineage. The ruminant Suborder comprises six Families and 66
living genera. These species are found in geographically dispersed areas
and have adapted to a wide variety of environments. They have also been
subjected to both natural and artificial selection. Our hypothesis is that
T2T assemblies of ruminant species with relatedness varying from those
capable of interbreeding to higher evolutionary distances (up to the
estimated 25 million years ago last common ancestor) will inform our
understanding of the underpinnings of ruminant evolution. It will also shed
light on the genomic consequences of domestication and enhance our
knowledge of the functional roles of heterochromatin and other repeat
regions of the genome.
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Hi everybody,
Join us next Wed, Nov. 1st, at 12 PM CT for our monthly webinar. We will
host Ben Rosen
<https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/beltsville-agric…>,
who will talk about telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies of ruminant
species and how they will help answer important evolutionary questions.
I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to
attend the webinar.
I hope you will join us.
Best,
Annarita
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*Presenters: * Ben Rosen, USDA-ARS
*Abstract:*
*The Ruminant T2T Consortium *
The first draft of the human genome assembly was released over twenty years
ago. However, a gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) “complete” assembly
remained elusive until last year. The highly repetitive nature of
pericentromeric, subtelomeric, and duplicated gene families, such as rRNA
arrays, made them impossible to assemble. It was only with advances in
long-read sequencing technologies and new bioinformatic tools that these
structures were resolved. Recently, we proposed the application of these
new resources, tools, and knowledge in support of a “Ruminant T2T
Consortium.” Our goal is to generate complete genomes for the ruminant
evolutionary lineage. The ruminant Suborder comprises six Families and 66
living genera. These species are found in geographically dispersed areas
and have adapted to a wide variety of environments. They have also been
subjected to both natural and artificial selection. Our hypothesis is that
T2T assemblies of ruminant species with relatedness varying from those
capable of interbreeding to higher evolutionary distances (up to the
estimated 25 million years ago last common ancestor) will inform our
understanding of the underpinnings of ruminant evolution. It will also shed
light on the genomic consequences of domestication and enhance our
knowledge of the functional roles of heterochromatin and other repeat
regions of the genome.
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Dear everyone,
We are excited to announce that we will soon reactivate the
quarterly AgBioData newsletter with past and future events and valuable
resources for this community.
We will use Mailchimp as a newsletter platform. *Since you
already subscribe to our mailing list, we will add your contact to our
newsletter list in Mailchimp. If you prefer opting out, you will find
instructions on how to unsubscribe at the bottom of the Mailchimp
newsletter.*
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Have a lovely week,
Annarita
Hi everybody,
The DEI Recruiting WG will have an open meeting this *Monday, Oct. 16, at 3
PM ET* about *establishing relationships with the 1890’s Land Grant
Community*. We will host Dr. Louis Whitesides
<https://louiswhitesides.com/about-me>, Vice President and Executive
Director of the 1890 Land Grant Programs, Dr. Alton Thompson
<https://foundationfar.org/about/people/alton-thompson-ph-d/>, Executive
Director, Association of 1890 Research Directors (ARD), and Dr. Pat Millner
<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…>,
Research Microbiologist at the USDA-ARS. You can find the abstract and the Zoom
link to join at the bottom of this email.
I hope you will join us!
Best,
Annarita
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*Session Abstract:*The 1890 land-grant institutions are historically black
universities established under the Second Morrill Act of 1890. The 1890’s
institutions provide significant contributions in research; and provide
access to college, graduate programs and professional schools for African
American, low income, and first-generation students. One of the goals of
the AgBioData community is to diversify both the species represented in our
data repositories and to increase participation by underrepresented
communities in our community.We welcome presentations and discussion with
Drs. Alton Thompson and Louis Whitesides representatives of the 1890’s land
grant research community and Dr. Pat Millner, Agricultural Research
Service. The discussions will focus on methods to establish successful
relationships with the 1890 land grant community. Drs. Whitesides and
Thompson will provide their advice and guidance in connecting with
researchers and educators in their community, by articulating the
priorities and needs of the community. Dr. Pat Millner provides her
on-the-ground experience in successfully working with the 1890 community.
In 2020, Dr. Pat Millner was recognized, by the USDA, Agricultural Research
Service, with the Agency-level award for Outreach, Diversity, and Equal
Opportunity in the Supervisory/Managerial Category, “For outstanding
accomplishments in coordinating, conducting, and fostering collaborative
food safety research and experiential training opportunities for students
and faculty between ARS scientist and 1890 land-grant institutions.”
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Due to the great interest in tomorrow's webinar, I am resharing the details
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Thanks, everyone, and welcome to the new members.
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Presenters: Pascal Neveu, UMR MISTEA, INRAE (France)
Abstract:
*PHIS, an ontology-based Information System for Plant Phenotyping*
The European EMPHASIS infrastructure aims to enable researchers to use
facilities, resources, and services for high-throughput phenotyping of
plants. Within the infrastructure, we are leading actions to help
scientists better understand plant performance and translate this knowledge
into applications. This presentation will look at some examples of data
management and implementation of data standards carried out in this context
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Hi everybody,
Join us tomorrow, *October 4th, *at 12 PM CT for our monthly webinar.
Pascal Neveu from INRAE (France) will talk about the European EMPHASIS
project <https://emphasis.plant-phenotyping.eu/> and PHIS, an
ontology-based information system for plant phenotyping.
I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to
attend the webinar.
I hope you will join us.
Best,
Annarita
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Presenters: Pascal Neveu, UMR MISTEA, INRAE (France)
Abstract:
*PHIS, an ontology-based Information System for Plant Phenotyping*
The European EMPHASIS infrastructure aims to enable researchers to use
facilities, resources, and services for high-throughput phenotyping of
plants. Within the infrastructure, we are leading actions to help
scientists better understand plant performance and translate this knowledge
into applications. This presentation will look at some examples of data
management and implementation of data standards carried out in this context
to add value to the phenotyping data. In particular, we will look at PHIS,
an ontology-based information system based on the OpenSILEX framework.
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Hi everybody,
Join us next Wed, *October 4th, *at 12 PM CT for our monthly webinar. We
will have Pascal Neveu from INRAE (France) talking about the European
EMPHASIS project <https://emphasis.plant-phenotyping.eu/> and PHIS, an
ontology-based information system for plant phenotyping.
I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to
attend the webinar.
I hope you will join us.
Best,
Annarita
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Abstract:
*PHIS, an ontology-based Information System for Plant Phenotyping*
The European EMPHASIS infrastructure aims to enable researchers to use
facilities, resources, and services for high-throughput phenotyping of
plants. Within the infrastructure, we are leading actions to help
scientists better understand plant performance and translate this knowledge
into applications. This presentation will look at some examples of data
management and implementation of data standards carried out in this context
to add value to the phenotyping data. In particular, we will look at PHIS,
an ontology-based information system based on the OpenSILEX framework.
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This is a friendly reminder of our monthly webinar tomorrow, *Sept 6th, *at
12 PM CT for our monthly webinar. We will have* Harry Caufield
<https://github.com/caufieldjh>,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
talking about how *SPIRES* implements Large Language Models (LLMs) to
extract structured knowledge in agricultural science and beyond.
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Abstract:
*Staying grounded: assembling structured biological knowledge with help
from large language models*
Developing comprehensive knowledge bases and ontologies demands meticulous
curation. The emergence of highly flexible, artificial intelligence-driven
approaches to natural language processing offers novel ways to expedite
this process. Current methods often rely on extensive training data,
however, and struggle with complex, nested knowledge structures. In this
talk, I will describe a new approach, Structured Prompt Interrogation and
Recursive Extraction of Semantics (SPIRES). This method for information
extraction leverages the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to
perform zero-shot learning (ZSL) with a variety of natural-language
prompts. SPIRES operates with predefined data schemas, enabling information
extraction that adheres to these structures. It also grounds concepts with
well-established ontologies and vocabularies, avoiding the "hallucinations"
common to text generated by LLMs.
Within OntoGPT, an LLM-querying framework we have developed, SPIRES
supports rapid application to summarization and modeling across plant
science and biology. Notably, this approach allows customization for new
tasks and topics without a need for new training data. We have found that
OntoGPT and SPIRES are capable of extracting structured knowledge from
large literature collections and constructing knowledge graphs from the
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Hi everybody,
Join us next Wed, *Sept 6th, *at 12 PM CT for our monthly webinar. We will
have* Harry Caufield <https://github.com/caufieldjh>,* Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, talking about how *SPIRES* implements Large Language
Models (LLMs) to extract structured knowledge in agricultural science and
beyond.
I have included below more details about the webinar and the Zoom link to
attend the webinar.
I hope you will join us.
Best,
Annarita
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Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract:
*Staying grounded: assembling structured biological knowledge with help
from large language models*
Developing comprehensive knowledge bases and ontologies demands meticulous
curation. The emergence of highly flexible, artificial intelligence-driven
approaches to natural language processing offers novel ways to expedite
this process. Current methods often rely on extensive training data,
however, and struggle with complex, nested knowledge structures. In this
talk, I will describe a new approach, Structured Prompt Interrogation and
Recursive Extraction of Semantics (SPIRES). This method for information
extraction leverages the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to
perform zero-shot learning (ZSL) with a variety of natural-language
prompts. SPIRES operates with predefined data schemas, enabling information
extraction that adheres to these structures. It also grounds concepts with
well-established ontologies and vocabularies, avoiding the "hallucinations"
common to text generated by LLMs.
Within OntoGPT, an LLM-querying framework we have developed, SPIRES
supports rapid application to summarization and modeling across plant
science and biology. Notably, this approach allows customization for new
tasks and topics without a need for new training data. We have found that
OntoGPT and SPIRES are capable of extracting structured knowledge from
large literature collections and constructing knowledge graphs from the
resulting relationships. Through harnessing the language comprehension
capabilities of LLMs, SPIRES streamlines knowledge acquisition from across
agricultural science and beyond.
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