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16. Research and Applications in Energy and Environment
16. Research and Applications in Energy and Environment
Pages 121-128
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And then we have one user facility in our division called the Joint Genome Institute. The parallel division, the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, has programs appropriate for that division, looking at modeling climate processes and characterizing subsurface biogeochemical processes.
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In the future, we hope to issue a call for projects that entail both Joint Genome Institute sequencing and EMSL proteomic analyses -- the kinds of projects that neither of those two facilities could do by itself but which, if they work together, can be tremendously valuable and provide yet another kind of data that a commons would want to include. Our data sharing policies state that any publishable information resulting from research that we have funded "must conform to community recognized standard formats when they exist, be clearly attributable, and be deposited within a community recognized public database(s)
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I remember getting a call from an author after we had asked if he would mind submitting his data in electronic form, and he said, "But I faxed it to you." So it was a hard-fought battle to install that paradigm, and we were helped out by the scientific journals, which were the primary architects of what is now a relatively standard policy of requiring that authors submit their data to the databases and present evidence of that submission as part of the publication process. For a while the community was quite resistant to the notion of submitting and releasing data, with the standard arguments against release being that researchers who had spent a lot of time generating data needed time to exploit the data themselves before releasing them to others.
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CAMERA also has data submission capabilities, and the community is encouraged to submit metagenomic datasets. There are thousands of metagenomic data collections waiting to be submitted and made available in some form or another.
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The ability to sequence large amounts of information is now available to a vastly broader segment of the scientific community than has been the case to date. Up until now, the ability to generate large amounts of data was largely the purview of a small, elite set of groups in the United States and Europe: the Joint Genome Institute, the sequencing centers at the National Institutes of Health, the Sanger Center, and a variety of other centers in Europe.
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There are other projects funded within the group by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. We draw from a pool of quasi-stabilized professionals and academics within the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the California Institute for Telecommunications Information Technology, and the Center for Research and Biological Systems.
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In practice we do not do that, but that is not to say that we could not or that the capabilities do not exist for that. There is a tradition, if not an ethical expectation within the scientific community, that if you are going to use data, whether or not they have been published, you will cite them.
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