Séminaire exceptionnel, l’ISYEB accueille Sujeevan Ratnasingham

Les séminaires de l'ISYEB
Les séminaires de l'ISYEB
Venez nombreux pour profiter de la présence exceptionnelle au MNHN de Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Associate Director of Informatics au Center for Biodiversity Genomics de l’Université de Guelph, Ontario, Canada, c’est à dire l’institution au cœur du projet Barcode of Life) pour un séminaire additionnel intitulé « International Barcode of Life (iBOL), and the cyberinfrastructure supporting it « .
Ce séminaire permettra de mieux comprendre iBOL2 et la direction prise par les projets de barcoding internationaux.
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Consortium, was initiated in 2010; it involves an international consortium of researchers and institutions that joined forces to advance the development of a DNA-based identification system for life. For our first five years, we set the goal of assembling reference sequences for half a million species, and by August 2015 - we met this target. In January 2019, iBOL will launch BIOSCAN, a 7-year project to implement DNA-based bio-monitoring programs at 2,500 sites around the planet, and will also extend the DNA barcode reference library required to contextualize the collected data. BIOSCAN represents the biological counterpart to the way in which our understanding of the physical world has been advanced by digital sensors and will produce a vast amount of data that will set the stage for new interpretations of the biological world. The success of BIOSCAN is tied to three fields of work: standardized sample acquisition, massively parallel DNA sequencing, and scalable and flexible cyberinfrastructure. This talk will focus on developments in the last field. BIOSCAN and DNA-based studies of biodiversity at large requires cyberinfrastructure tools that employ new strategies, data standards, and workflows. Important aspects of future developments will need to include an adoption of big-data concepts and tools, and a focus on knowledge generation. I present early solutions to these challenges, including the latest version of BOLD (version 4), new tools, and future plans to address evolving requirements.