Scientific Subcommittee: IT and Informatics

Science requires reproducibility. For EBP this means that raw sequence data, output references, and assembly, annotation, and analysis software pipelines be publicly available and usable worldwide. Additionally, the EBP is both a global challenge requiring international co-ordination, and, a once in a lifetime project for all humanity. The ongoing 6th mass extinction requires storage of EBP data for future generations. The IT and informatics standards committee will suggest standards and protocols to enable the EBP to meet the challenges of Phase I in the near term, with suggestions for expansion to later phases.

Members

Xiaofeng Wei, China National GeneBank, China, Chair

Titus Brown, University of California, Davis, United States

Keith Crandall, George Washington University, United States

Robert Davey, Earlham Institute, United Kingdom

Monica Poelchau, National Agricultural Library, United States

Kim Pruitt, NCBI, United States

Emillio Righi, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Juan Carlos Castilla Rubio, Spacetime Ventures, Brazil

Cibele Sotero-Caio, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

Former Member

Nicholas Salmon, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom

Peter Harrison, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom