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Synopsis

This workshop was held 16 March 2011 at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, as part of the e-SI mini-theme Genomic and Environmental Science Data Flows. The event was organized by Dr. Ruth McNally, Dr. Adrian Mackenzie and Jennifer Tomomitsu, ESRC Cesagen, in association with the eSI Thematic Programme.

Making and using genomics data through Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a multidisciplinary enterprise that requires collaboration between domain experts and technical experts. As an innovative scientific enterprise, it entails experiments and experimental forms of actions. This workshop explored the arrangements that bring specific application areas and specific technical areas together for this e-science.

The objectives were to:

• develop an awareness of the problems, obstacles, friction points or gaps that hinder transformations or reshaping of data flows to do better e-science in NGS;
• identify practices and devices in the conduct of NGS that sustain collaborative development;
• develop an awareness of some alternative ways of thinking about data flows in genomics;
• develop alternative socio-technical models that open up new avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration on devices and practices for research with high throughput data flows.

One outcome will be maps of the trajectories of NGS data, from production through assembly, storage, analysis, visualisation, modelling and publication. We will seek to enrich the descriptions of how data are characterised at different places and in different domains, with particular reference to the qualities of replication, durability and metrology. The data flows developed in the workshop will then be validated in the broader community.

Workshop Agenda