COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards
Lynn M. Schriml, Maria Chuvochina, Neil Davies, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, ROBERT FINN, Philip Hugenholtz, Chris Hunter, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Folker Meyer, Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi, Susanna‐Assunta Sansone, Granger Sutton, Scott Tighe, Ramona Walls
Abstract
Efficient response to the pandemic through the mobilization of the larger scientific community is challenged by the limited reusability of the available primary genomic data. Here, the Genomic Standards Consortium board highlights the essential need for contextual genomic data FAIRness, for empowering key data-driven biological questions.
Topics & Concepts
MetadataPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Data science2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Key (lock)World Wide WebBiologyComputational biologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceVirologyMedicineEcologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)OutbreakDiseasePathologyResearch Data Management PracticesEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity StudiesBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies