2011Field talk at iEVOBIO 2011

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The role of grass-roots data sharingcommunities, standards and

megasequencing projects in the genomics revolution

Dawn FieldNERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

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Opportunities and Challenges

The era of genomics is just beginning...

...how will we cope with the data?

...how will we gain the most knowledge from this investment in data?

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PARADIGM SHIFTPARADIGM SHIFT1960-1990

16S RNA

1990-2010

Genomes

2010-2020

Pangenomes

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GREAT CHALLENGESGREAT CHALLENGES

1995-2009 2010-2015

Finished 1000 3000

Draft 1000 10000

P. Chain et al. Science, 2009Genome Sequencing Projects on GOLD

September 2009, 5643 projects

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1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

Incomplete

Complete

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Culturable

Unculturable

Nikos Kyrpides

The trend is now increasingly geared towards

ever more ambitious megasequencing

projects...

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And democratization of access to sequencing

power...

Just one example....

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(~80) 41 metagenomes“Global Ocean Survey” Sanger sequencing(Rusch et al, 2007)

Metagenomics: Putting data generating capacity into perspective with an example from Bergen

(1) 1 metagenomeSargasso SeaSanger sequencing(Venter et al, 2005)

(~120) 4 metagenomes &4 metatranscriptomesBergen mesocosm experimentPyrosequencing(Gilbert et al, 2008)

Gilbert JA, Field D, Huang Y, Edwards R, Li W, Gilna P, Joint I. (2008) Detection of large numbers of novel sequences in the metatranscriptomes of complex marine microbial communities. PLoS ONE. Aug 22;3(8):e3042.

The Bergen ocean acidification study produced 19% of the reads produced in the GOS study and 5% of the total

basepairs of sequence.

Further evidence for the “Unknown Genome” and the

Dark Matter of the Tree of Life

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The

Data

- Flood

- Tsunami

- Deluge

?

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the data bonanza

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To exploit fully the promise of these data we need both scientific

innovation and community agreement on how to provide

appropriate stewardship of these resources for the benefit of all. 

Requires the evolution of our scientific, technological and sociological thinking....

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SuperMarket

The Genome Catalogue

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DataMarket Norman Morrison

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Packaging data

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Labels for data

<phenotype>

<environmen

tal context>

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standardsPrinciples: Not everything should be ‘standardized’Aggregation of data, information, and knowledge

requires standard ways of doing things

Standards provide foundations; Standards should drive innovation(think of electrical plugs or the internet)

Pick the right concepts to standardize – at the right time, with the right people

Requires good ‘group think’ – or ‘systems thinking’

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Community-driven solutions:

The Common Path:

•Identify the problem•Define a community to address it•Define scope of the solution•Implement solution•Gain adoption of solution

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The Genomic Standards ConsortiumGSC 10

Argonne, 2010

GSC 11,Hinxton,

2010

Innovation through Collaboration

GSC 12Bremen,

2011

GSC 13BGI 2012

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The GSC’s Mission

• the implementation of new genomic standards

• methods of capturing and exchanging metadata

• harmonization of metadata collection and analysis efforts across the wider genomics community

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The GSC fulfills its mission by

• Organizing meetings • Forming working groups• Creating Consensus Products

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Pelin Yilmaz et al 2011

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Use of MIGS/MIMS/MIENS

Please provide this minimum information when you publish

•a genome•a metagenome•a gene marker study (i.e. ribosomal genes)

Genbank, EMBL and DDBJ now accept this information and encourage its submission to their public DNA databases

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Labels for data

<MIGS><MIMS>

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Goal:Goal:International effort to sequence a reference genome for every cultured Archaeal and Bacterial organism (~9,000 microbes)

Goal:Goal:International effort to sequence a reference genome for every cultured Archaeal and Bacterial organism (~9,000 microbes)

The Microbial Earth The Microbial Earth ProjectProject

Phase I:Sequence one representative from every characterized microbial type type

speciesspecies

Phase I:Sequence one representative from every characterized microbial type type

speciesspecies

GEBAGEBAGEBAGEBA HMPHMPHMPHMP

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Source: Jack A. GilbertArgonne National Labs

http://earthmicrobiome.org

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Field et al unpublished work on a Metadata Coverage Index (MCI)

MCI > 50

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GSC 5 at the EBI2008

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J BacteriologyJ Bacteriology

PNASPNAS

NatureNature

ScienceScience

SIGSSIGS

PLoS ONEPLoS ONE

Genome ResearchGenome Research

PLoS GeneticsPLoS Genetics

Nat BiotechNat Biotech

BMC GenomicsBMC Genomics

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Top ten journals publishing genome reports

Total 1160 Genome publicationsin 60 peer reviewed publications

Source - GenomesOnline DatabaseMay 28, 2011

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Incentives for compliance

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MIGS compliant marine phage genomes

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GSC 9 at the JCVI – April 2010

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Darwin Core

GSC MIxSPeter Dawyndt

Darwin core vs GSC MixS standard

Darwin core vs GSC MixS standard

Darwin Core

GSC MIxS standard

TaxonIdentification

Occurrence

IPR related info

EventLocation

GeologicalContextSamplingProtocolEnvironmentalConditions

Darwin core vs GSC MixS standard

Darwin core vs GSC MixS standard

Peter Dawyndt

Preliminary (first) conclusions

Preliminary (first) conclusions

•DC & GSC checklist more complementary than overlapping

how can we make these standards completely orthogonal?

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http://gensc.org

More Information about the GSC...

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Feast of the Mind

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Labels for data

<soil>

<water>

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http://environmentontology.org

Member of OBO Foundry http://obofoundry.org

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1) Pick terms2) View hits

3) Browse4) Follow links to primary

data

– building on ontologies

Users :

http://ontogrator.org Morrison et al, 2011 SIGS

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Ontogrator approach depends on quality of

• Data Resources• Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS)

used

Can we use this approach to improve both?Can we complete the virtuous cycle?

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Field, et al 2009. Science. 326:234-236. 

http://biosharing.org

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Conclusions

• The era of genomics is just beginning…• Self-organization by the scientific community

can pay dividends (i.e. consensus building, large-scale co-ordination)– Standards are keys to unlocking data– Group thinking overcomes the tragedy of the

commons

• Emerging key players from the molecular domain – “one stop shops”– Genomic Standards Consortium– BioSharing – driving cross-community collaborations

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Future

• Analysis – proof sharing is beneficial• Making the field of data sharing more

quantitative – Objective measures of consensus– Useful Metrics: i.e. Metadata coverage index (MCI)– Modelling – i.e. how to best incentivize data

sharing?

• Further shared concepts– Minimum Information about a Sampling Site (MISS)– Minimum Data Policy– PubData?

AcknowledgementsBergen and L4 metagenomicsJack Gilbert Sue

HuseIan Joint Paul

SwiftPaul Somerfield Rob

Knight

NEBCBela TiwariTim BoothMesude Bicak

CEHNorman MorrisonDave Hancock

University of Manchester

Henning HermjakobChris Taylor

European Bioinformatics Institute

Susanna SansonePhilippe Rocca-SerraEamonn Maguire

Oxford University

Genomic Standards ConsortiumPeter Sterk

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Acknowledgements

Coordination, workshops, working groups,infrastructure and exchange visits

Additional workshop funds

Local Hosts of GSC workshops

Sponsors of GSC 9 and GSC 10

GSC FundingRCN4GSC