Environmental omics Community

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Environmental -omics Community Joe Wood
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• Who we are
• What we can contribute to FUGO
• What we want from FUGO
• What the challenges are for our community

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• J. Wood, Norman Morrison work for the NEBC
• NEBC set up in 2002 to provide data management
  and bioinformatics support to 400 NERC-funded
  environmental 'omics' scientists across the UK.
• Aim to comply with international data standards
• Our development of an 'Env' specification came
  from a need to extend MIAME for our microarray
  users MIAME/Env

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Virus infection in marine algae
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Osmoregulation in Flounder
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Circadian rhythms in King Ragworm
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• Norman Morrison became Env representive in RSBI,
  FUGO and Metabolomics Society
• I've recently taken over part of his role while
  he's touring the world
• Want to see Env opened up to a wider
  international community
• Env applied to other -omic data types (e.g. GSC)

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• Environmental ontology terms for FUGO (with
  guidance!)
• Use-cases from scientists doing 'omic'
  experiments in a environmental context

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• Ability to annotate a variety of -omic
  environmental experiments in line with
  international data standards
• Guidance with developing Env ontology
• Framework for developing that ontology

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• Wide variety of parameters can be nearly infinite
• Hence the (assay,entity, measurement, value,unit)
  construct
• Environmental moon phase, tidal cycles
• Geographical - plant of southwest facing cliff of
  slope x
• Phenotype plasma sodium, C.elegans behaviour
• Learning the ropes of ontology development