PP AWG Bioinformatics Sub-Group

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This is the kick-off thread for the Planetary Protection AWG @PPawg Bioinformatics sub-group. The first task would be to find a suitable date to meet for most of us.

I would suggest Tuesdays at 6 am PT, 9 am ET, 15:00 CET, always in the week before our monthly PP AWG meeting on Thursday. Next chance would be Tuesday, April 7th. Any time constraints?

As soon as we agree on the date, we should discuss topics and potential projects related to:

  • Consensus metagenomics pipelines.
  • Reference genome databases.
  • AI/ML risk detection algorithms.
  • Public data/protocol sharing via NASA OSDR and metadata standards, etc.

We are interested in e.g.:

  • Developing new algorithms
  • Benchmarking (new or existing)
  • Integrating and consensus
  • Applying (New comparisons, space vs cleanroom vs hospital data, large-scale data mining)
  • bridging with other subgroups (ie. large scale mining of blanks in MGnify in dialog with the nucleic acid sub-group)

The following people are already on my list of interested folks: @Alex @Haley_Sapers @gregcaporaso @moogega @lorna @Rettberg @jneufeld

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I am interested! I’ll be there on behalf of the Space Microbial Culture Collection at Ames, which is currently in the process of ingesting a lot of planetary protection-relevant isolates and developing protocols for sequencing and identification. (So, not metagenomics, but still bioinformatics.) I’d love to be plugged into this AWG and specifically this sub-group. Please include me in invitations and communications. I may not make all meetings but I will try.

@Alex @Haley_Sapers

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