2018 ASHS Annual Conference

National Research Support Project 10 (NRSP10, www.nrsp10.org) is a USDA NIFA funded, five year project (2014-2019) providing national crop database resources for under-served crops with a focus on specialty crops. It involves broad support and participation from US Land Grant Universities Experiment Stations and industry, many of who will present updates of project features or be participants in this follow up workshop to the one held at ASHS 2017. It will be will include a series of talks by scientists who use these rosaceae (www.rosaceae.org), citrus (www.citrusgenomedb.org), and vaccinium (www.vaccinium.org) database resources to enable their genomics, genetics and breeding research, highlight new data and functionality, present ideas for further work and solicit feedback from the workshop attendees. Each presentation will be 10-12 minutes with 3-5 minutes for discussion and each presentation will conclude with a slide containing one or more question to facilitate the discussion. The presenters will coordinate these questions ahead of time and reach out to known attendees through our mailing list to ensure the questions are pertinent and relevant to the goals of the workshop. This will be followed by a 30 minute general discussion session to solicit further feedback on community needs for the next five-years of this project.

Example questions for the participants might include:

Staton Presentation: Do you need help with setting up a project database using Tripal or do you see using your community database as able to meet your project data management and project data sharing and analysis needs?

Rife Presentation: What challenges or impediments do you have or forsee having in your ability to use the FieldBook App to collect phenotype data from the field

Peace Presentation: Do you see your program as being able to utilize global prediction functionality and if so what might be the challenged your would face in using it?

Jung Presentation: Is there any functionality you need in these databases that we don't have? If so, is that functionality available in other databases?

Gasic Presentation: Do you like the functionality of BIMS? What can we do or provide to help you be able to use it? Any limitations you can see with it?

Main Presentation: Do the planned activities for the next 5 years look appropriate? Are there other activities we should be including and if so what are they?

General Discussion:
Is it clear what these database resources and tools provide to you? What are we doing well in this project and where are we not doing well and could improve? Should NRSP10 have a larger role in educating young scientists on data management, data nomenclature, data submission to maximize possible re-use and impact of their research data and results?