Addressing DNA sequencing data submission challenges at global scale: your invitation to learn from the experts
Data submission to international repositories is an essential task for researchers, but it can often come with challenges. A range of special events for Australian researchers will focus on streamlining the data submission processes for various data types, addressing common challenges, and providing best-practice guidance on interacting with the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA).
BioCommons is partnering with specialists from the ENA and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to deliver a series of hands-on workshops and online community discussions to help Australian researchers share their valuable data. The ENA is committed to maximising the impact of the ENA platform, sequencing technology and data, and will travel to Australia to support local researchers' data submission and discuss our particular needs.
The two-week program in late March and early April will feature seven targeted workshops covering submission and retrieval workflows for specific data types (raw reads, assembled and annotated genomes, metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) and environmental DNA (eDNA)). Three interactive online community discussions around the same themes round out the program and offer the opportunity for Australian researchers to share their experiences, challenges and potential solutions directly with international specialists from the ENA.
ENA is a globally recognised open platform for the management, sharing, integration, archiving and dissemination of nucleotide sequence data. This comprehensive resource preserves the world’s public-domain output of sequence data and is an essential tool for many researchers, but sometimes people can struggle with using it. Given that submission of omics data and associated contextual metadata to global data repositories is considered best practice and is mandated by science publishers, we want to enable researchers to facilitate the long-term preservation, findability and reusability of their data.
This is a unique opportunity to gain invaluable insights and practical skills from leading experts in omics data management and submission. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or just starting out, these workshops and discussions will empower you to confidently navigate the complexities of data sharing.
'Roundtable' Community Discussions: Challenges and solutions
01 - 03 Apr, 10:00-12:00 AEDT
Join our online 'Roundtable' Community Discussions with members of the ENA team.
Each session will focus on a different theme: Genomics - genome annotations and assemblies, and pangenomes; MAGs - submitting MAGs at scale, and how to submit MAG data when there are gaps in the NCBI species taxonomy; and eDNA - recent changes enabling eDNA sequences to be more findable through submission to ENA. Register here for roundtables.
Hands-on Training workshops: Data submission and retrieval
25 Mar - 03 Apr, 13:00-16:00 AEDT
Learn directly from the ENA team in a range of practical online training workshops to explain genome assembly and annotation, MAG and eDNA data submission and retrieval.
Our community consultations teased out some of the challenges faced by Australian-based researchers in the data submission process, and BioCommons published a set of recommendations to address them. One ambition of a range of ongoing activities around interfacing with international omics data repositories is to facilitate improvements by connecting the right people.
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is a Global Core Biodata Resource, an ELIXIR Core Data Resource and is hosted by EMBL-EBI. It is one of the three nodes of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).
INSDC is actively seeking additional members to enhance Global Participation.