Welcome to the monthly ‘Open Science for Life in Space’ AWG Roundup!
This ‘Roundup’ helps AWG members stay up-to-date on new AWGs, news, AWG subgroups/projects, general opportunities, newly released NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) data, new/relevant pubs, etc.
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AWG Quick Links
Table of AWG Subgroup Collaborations • Calendar of AWG Meetings (make sure you login) • AWG Forum-Space • Charter • Current Opportunities-Solicitations & Upcoming Events
OSDR Quick Links
5 new OSD’s since Dec 1 • OSDR Tutorials • Data Visualization Portal • Environmental Data App • RadLab • OSDR Submission Portal • OSDR Data Submission Guide • OSDR Database Paper • OSDR 2024 Fall Newsletter • 106 OSDR-Enabled Publications
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Top News
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In-Person AWG
Breakfast-Meet-up on Friday January 17th, 8-10a, Roger’s Deli and Donuts in Mountain View, CA- Chance for AWG members in the California Bay Area to meet one another, talk science, collaborations. Roger’s offers customizable plates of breakfast options, plus great breakfast sandwiches. Contact ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov if questions
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We really hope all AWG members consider completing the TOPS 101 Training? There is a NASA certificate and swag package
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AWG Social at NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop (Jan 28-31)
- On this Forum-space thread, make sure to stay in the loop on which evening/where we’ll be having an AWG social for all AWGers attending HRPIWS25. Please leave a comment if you plan to be there in person! Social Thursday afternoon
- On this Forum-space thread, make sure to stay in the loop on which evening/where we’ll be having an AWG social for all AWGers attending HRPIWS25. Please leave a comment if you plan to be there in person! Social Thursday afternoon
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AWG and OSDR 2024 ‘Year in Review’
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In 2024, OSDR/GeneLab enabled 51 peer-reviewed pubs, pre-prints, and published student theses!
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In 2023 the peer-reviewed pubs were 19, 2022 = 20, 2021 = 14, 2020 = 16, 2019 = 7, 2018 = 5, 2017 = 1. Kudos to the global ‘Open Science for Life in Space’ community and all AWG members
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Also pleased to share, that specifically for OSDR/GeneLab enabled publications and pre-prints/theses, we now know the H-Index and can track citations:
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On the Forum-Space, there are ~2.2k page views per month of your member profiles (your professional pictures, affiliation/experience/about me). Sincere thanks
to everyone who filled their profiles out fully, it helps us connect to one another, and helps the world identify you as an AWG member. -
All ~950 AWG members (45 joined in December) received invites for the Forum-space via notifications@osdr.discoursemail.com from rtscott2001. Check your spam folder, as our community is new and sometimes gets flagged
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There are 23 OSDR Assay Metadata Configs & Data Standards Ready for AWG/SME Review
- Here they are ready for input/review, see Column D, starting row 67. FAQ here.
- E.g. Ramen Spectroscopy, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Hyperspectral Analysis
- Help/guidance? We’re happy to help: rachel.r.gilbert@nasa.gov and ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov
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Interested/able to review the GeneLab Proteomic pipeline? Here is the info via the OSDR Proteomic Pipeline AWG subgroup. Will be on GL DP GitHub once complete
- Please contact barbara.a.novak@nasa.gov & amanda.m.saravia-butler@nasa.gov
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Congrats to Nilufar Ali, Afshin Beheshti, and Greg Hampikian on their latest Multi-Omics AWG publication on Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review
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AWG Groups/Subgroups
- Please attend at least one of the AWG monthly meetings to stay involved. Contact the leads below to be engaged (the @ is to !
DM/chat them via the Forum-space):-
AI/ML – @lauren.sanders ; lauren.m.sanders@nasa.gov
- Meets 2nd Tues/mo, 9-10a PT (Jan 14)
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ALSDA – @rtscott2001 ; ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov
- Meets 3rd Tues/mo, 8-9:30a PT (Jan 21)
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Animal – @paula6 ; paula6@erau.edu
- Meets 4th Wed/mo, 9-10:30a PT (Jan 22)
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Female Repro – @abegum ; abegum@usf.edu
- Meets 3rd Mon/mo, 10-11a PT (Jan 20)
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Human – @Dr.Overbey ; eoverbey@uaustin.org
- Meets 1st Thurs/mo, 8-9a PT (Feb 6)
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Microbes – @daniela.bezdan ; bezdan.daniela@gmail.com
- Meets 1st Wed/mo, 10-11a PT (Feb 5)
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Multi-Omics – beheshti@pitt.edu @AfshinBeheshti or @jessicadurbano & jessica94durbano@gmail.com
- Meets 3rd Wed/mo, 8-9:30a PT (Jan 15)
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Plant – @dr.richard.barker ; dr.richard.barker@gmail.com
- Meets twice:
- 2nd Wed/mo, 8-9:30a PT (Jan 8)
- 4th Wed/mo, 12-1p PT (Jan 22)
- Meets twice:
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RadLab – @kirill ; kirill.grigorev@bmsis.org
- Series starting up in 2025 (TBD)
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January calendar:
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List of the ~22 AWG sub-groups (this table is always up to date). Few points:
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A new Causal Inference group was started by Pramod Misra, as a sub-group of the AI/Ml AWG. Sign up form here to join
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Human AWG started in October, and reach out to Charlotte Nelson (@canelson) as she is leading a sub-group mining all Human data in OSDR using the UCSF/NSF knowledge graph tool ‘SPOKE’
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Pedro Madgrigal (@pmadrigal; pmadrigal [ at ] ebi.ac.uk) started an AI-Readiness subgroup. Please reach out to him if interested
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The RR-18 retinal RNAseq and RRBS subgroup led by Xiao Wen Mao will continue in May of 2025 (waiting on data sequencing and processing)
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Vinita Chauhan began an Adverse Outcome Pathway project, here is the thread for more info and to join
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The Readers Corner
- As machine learning/AI has becomes more and more part of AWG reuse investigations using OSDR/Genelab data, Lauren and myself thought it useful to share this arXiv paper: “Questionable practices in machine learning”
- It has a fantastic Table 1 covering contamination issues, cherrypicking, misreporting, and amplifiers
- [2407.12220] Questionable practices in machine learning
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I leave you all with the Acknowledgments section for the OSDR Database paper in NAR:
Happy new year!
-Ryan
@AIMLawg @ALSDAawg @AnimalAWG @FemaleReproAWG @HUMANawg @MicrobesAWG @MultiOmicsAWG @PlantAWG @RLWG
