Crowdsourcing genomic analyses of ash and ash dieback – power to the people

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Diane GO Saunders²  Sophien Kamoun²  Allan Downie¹  Mario Caccamo³  Mark Gijzen⁴  Patrick Chapman⁴  Matthew Bashton⁵  David Swarbreck³  Matt Clark³  Bernardo Clavijo³  Lisa Crossman³  Anne Edwards¹  Kentaro Yoshida²  Dan MacLean² 

[1] The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK;The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK;The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK;Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, 1391 Sandford St, London, ON, N5V 4T3, Canada;Bioinformatics Support Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Framlington Place, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE2 4HH, UK

关键词: Altmetrics;    Open source;    Ash dieback;    Genomics;    Crowdsource;   

Others  :  861659
DOI  :  10.1186/2047-217X-2-2

 received in 2013-02-05, accepted in 2013-02-07,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Ash dieback is a devastating fungal disease of ash trees that has swept across Europe and recently reached the UK. This emergent pathogen has received little study in the past and its effect threatens to overwhelm the ash population. In response to this we have produced some initial genomics datasets and taken the unusual step of releasing them to the scientific community for analysis without first performing our own. In this manner we hope to ‘crowdsource’ analyses and bring the expertise of the community to bear on this problem as quickly as possible. Our data has been released through our website at oadb.tsl.ac.uk and a public GitHub repository.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 MacLean et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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