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Research Data Alliance-Oracle for Research (RDA-OfR)

Creating a Multi-omics Metadata Schema Standard Reporting Matrix WG

Working Group Kick-off meeting

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

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A few logistics

Background: About the Working Group
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Today’s meeting agenda

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Time (UTC)	Meeting agenda item	Lead
15:00 - 15:10	Welcome and housekeeping Introduction to the RDA and OfR partnership Introduction to the facilitator and co-chairs Role of the facilitator	Connie Clare
15:10 - 15:20	Introduction to the WG: Background Aims/objectives Deliverables Milestones & proposed timeline	David Molik
15:20 - 15:35	Overview of -Omics resources used as training materials	Lindsey Anderson
15:35 - 15:40	Getting to know WG members: Menti	Lindsey Anderson
15:40 - 15:55	Q&A/Discussion	Tim Van Den Bossche
15:55 - 16:00	Closing remarks and next steps	Tim Van Den Bossche

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Vision

Researchers and innovators openly share and re-use data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

Mission

RDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data.

Guiding principles

Openness
Consensus
Inclusivity
Harmonisation
Community-driven
Non-profit & technology neutral

The RDA Community

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Global

Community-driven

13,900+

international experts

80

organisational & affiliate members

35

regional �networks

150+

countries

75+

flagship

recommendations & outputs

100+

community groups

Consensus based

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Collaboration with Oracle for Research

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Public-private partnership model

Two WGs facilitated by the RDA (12 months)
Outputs owned by the RDA community
Supported by Oracle for Research

RDA’s strategic plan 2024-2028

Professional facilitation to support global volunteer effort
Accelerate data-driven developments

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Categorisation schema of types of research tools by research data lifecycle.

Creating a metadata schema standard reporting matrix.

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Meet the Co-chairs & Facilitator

Connie Clare, PhD

Community Development Manager

Research Data Alliance

WG Facilitator

connie.clare@rda-foundation.org

David Molik, PhD

Computational Biologist

USDA ARS - ABADRU

WG Co-chair

david.molik@usda.gov

Lindsey Anderson

Computational Chemical Biologist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/

FAIRsharing Omics Champion

WG Co-chair

Lindsey.Anderson@pnnl.gov

Tim Van Den Bossche, PhD

Bioinformatics researcher

Ghent University

WG Co-chair

t im.vandenbossche@ugent.be

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Role of the facilitator

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Providing assistance and support for WG co-chairs and members:

Setting up Zoom meetings and sending calendar invitations.
Creating slide templates and collaborative notes documents.
Chairing and note-taking during WG meetings.
Maintaining WG documentation in Google folder.
Monitoring progress and adherence to WG timelines, namely delivery of outputs/deliverables.

Serving as a liaison between WG (co-chairs & members) and:

RDA governance bodies (e.g., TAB and Secretariat)
Oracle for Research colleagues

Creation and dissemination of communications via:

Emails/mailing lists
News items
Progress reports
Social media

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Background and Introduction

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Introduction to the Working Group

Multi-omics data integration combines diverse biological data types through high-throughput technologies to comprehensively understand molecular interactions in living organisms
Yet challenges persist in managing and sharing the increasing volume of generated datasets
This working group aims to solve some of these challenges

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Problem Statement

“[There exists a] vast array of fragmented experimental metadata and data formats generated across the different Omics domains which it difficult to manage and integrate multi-omics data prior to downstream analyses.”

Standards reporting in multi-omics metadata is lacking
Lacking of reporting is causing data formatting problems

Interoperability
Downstream analysis

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Aims & Objectives Statement

Guide data producers through the vast array of fragmented experimental metadata and data formats

By leveraging preexisting

Omics domain metadata standards,
Ontologies,
Reporting guidelines,

“this working group will advance current siloed community harmonisation efforts with much needed cross-disciplinary diversity for creating more sustainable standard reporting guidelines fully representative of various data types and computational formats.”

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WG Deliverables Overview

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Timeline

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Month/Year	Preliminary WG Activities
November 2023	1st WG meeting (WG kick-off meeting & member consultation, training material overview)
December 2023	2nd WG meeting (i. Presentation of WG aims, objectives, deliverables and timeline. ii. Allocation of task groups by domain expertise)
January 2024	3rd WG meeting (Landscape review)
February 2024	4th WG meeting (Landscape review)
March 2024	5th WG meeting (Landscape review) Definition of WG recommendations & outputs structure
April 2024	6th WG meeting (finalise landscape review: creation of Omics Domain collection in FAIRSharing efforts from task groups)
May 2024	7th WG meeting (crosswalk)
June 2024	8th WG meeting (crosswalk)
July 2024	9th WG meeting (finalise crosswalk and start collecting use cases). This activity will help to identify the core metadata schema reporting matrix and invitation of use-case example representatives providing feedback on how well their resource captures elements from the matrix for more than one omics domain.
August 2024	10th WG meeting (metadata schema standard reporting matrix and use cases)
September 2024	11th WG meeting (metadata schema standard reporting matrix and use cases)
October 2024	12th WG meeting (metadata schema standard reporting matrix) Final WG Recommendation Community review
November 2024	Final WG Recommendation Endorsement (Council) & Press campaign

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Educational Materials for Landscape Review

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FAIRsharing Community Standards

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Omics Domain Standard Examples

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FAIRsharing Omics Database Examples

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FAIRsharing Community Collections

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Gathering Omics Record Resources

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Getting to know our WG members

Go to www.menti.com and enter code: 7594 6932 or scan the QR code with your mobile device camera (survey expires 2023-12-12)

Results will be available after the kick-off meeting and will be made accessible from the WG share folder.

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Open Discussion (10 min) & Q&A

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Closing remarks and next steps

Thank you all for joining and for your active participation!

Recruitment of members from the Global South - Can you help?
Next WG meeting: Wednesday 13 December, 15:00 UTC
All documentation on WG webpage
Any questions or comments, please contact Co-chairs or facilitator
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