AGENDA

i5K Coordinating Group

17 April 2024

11:00-12:00 EDT

Meeting Chair: Sue Brown

Attending: Sue Brown, Monica Poelchau, Chris Childers, Marc Halfon, David Molik, Brad Coates, Josh Benoit, Duane McKenna, Terrence Sylvester, Jay Evans, Kevin Hackett, Brian Scheffler, Anna Childers, Rob Waterhouse, Glenn Hanes

Regrets:

  • Approval of previous meeting’s minutes.
  • New member introductions
  • CC member cameo of the month: Sarthok Rahman (10 min) not in attendance
  • Working group highlights (can change order)

Upcoming sessions:

Session 3: Beenome100 and Comparative Bee Genomics, Tuesday, April 30 at 11am-1pm EDT. Moderators Jay Evans & Michael Branstetter.

Session 4: NCBI Comparative Genomic Resources, Tuesday, May 21 11am-1pm EDT. Moderated by Terence Murphy.

Arthropod Genomics Symposium, June 25-27 at KCB Leadership Centre, Nairobi, Kenya Nairobi, Kenya. Host: Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). Detail at https://bit.ly/ags2024 https://i5k.github.io/agsx2024 asking presenters if talks might be recorded

Biodiversity genomics (BG24) 28th Oct - 1st Nov 2024

proposed 3 i5k sessions -

beenome100 and Ag100Pest Initiatives, Jay Evans and Anna Childers

BEETLE TREE OF LIFE Duane McKenna

i5K COMMUNITY would like to hold a meeting, Brad S. Coates and Monica Poelchau

International Congress in Entomology 2024 (ICE24) August 25-30, 2024, Kyoto

Symposium “International sequencing initiatives: Building genomic resources and bridging research disciplines”, organized by Brad Coates

Includes presentation “USDA ARS’s Ag100Pest Initiative and Beenome100: From Pests to Pollinators and Beyond”, Anna Childers USDA-ARS

Entomological Society of America National Meeting, November 10-13 in Phoenix, AZ, Section Symposium “Genomic Approaches to Empower the Coexistence of Pest Control and Pollinator Protection” organized by Brad Coates and Sarthak Rahman

Accepted and in planning

  • Standards. Continuing to work on outline of standards + gaps white paper. Includes discussion on genome notes/reports standardization to decrease burden on reviewers.
    • Comment - it would be good to write a standalone discussion paper on this which includes the history of the genome paper (from large-scale analyses in the past, to current notes model). This would be useful for the entire community. Would need to consider including editors of journals
    • Note that the standards should go beyond the numbers, but what other content is expected to be included.
    • Wellcome trust is planning to release their software that automatically generates genome notes (without the intro)
    • Comment that the name ‘note’ may not fully capture what these papers can be. E.g. distinction between taxonomic descriptions that are basic vs. those that propose new ideas.
    • It would be worth defining what a ‘genome note’ or ‘genome report’ is vs. fuller description
  • Exec committee.
    • Discussion on delegation of some EBP votes to non-USDA i5k member. Discussion on activities to increase outreach/interest in i5k - ‘hot topic’ paper reviews similar to MGC (https://maizegdb.org/hot_new_papers);
    • Podcast interviews of scientists and their genome project
    • Training no meeting
    • Genome Project Coordination next month discussion with Cibele on interactions with GOAT. What is a genome project group? How many genomes constitutes a group? How to submit progress on genome projects?
  • Working group additional items (example: AGS organization discussion from the Outreach WG)
  • Other items from the community germane to the cc (e.g. relevant EBP updates, new funding opportunities, meetings/conferences)

Discussion topics:

NEXT MEETING: 15 May 2024

11:00-12:00 EDT