Voolstra Christian R, Wörheide Gert, Lopez Jose V
Invertebr Syst. 2017 Mar;31(1):1-7. doi: 10.1071/is16059. Epub 2017 Mar 16.
The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA), a collaborative network of diverse scientists, marked its second anniversary with a workshop in Munich, Germany, where international attendees focused on discussing current progress, milestones and bioinformatics resources. The community determined the recruitment and training talented researchers as one of the most pressing future needs and identified opportunities for network funding. GIGA also promotes future research efforts to prioritize taxonomic diversity and create new synergies. Here, we announce the generation of a central and simple data repository portal with a wide coverage of available sequence data, via the compagen platform, in parallel with more focused and specialized organism databases to globally advance invertebrate genomics. Therefore this article serves the objectives of GIGA by disseminating current progress and future prospects in the science of invertebrate genomics with the aim of promotion and facilitation of interdisciplinary and international research.
全球无脊椎动物基因组学联盟（GIGA）是一个由不同科学家组成的合作网络，在德国慕尼黑举办的一次研讨会上迎来了它的两周年纪念日。国际参会者齐聚一堂，重点讨论了当前的进展、里程碑以及生物信息学资源。与会群体将招募和培养有才华的研究人员确定为未来最紧迫的需求之一，并确定了网络资金的机会。GIGA还推动未来的研究工作，将分类学多样性作为优先事项，并创造新的协同效应。在此，我们宣布通过compagen平台生成一个核心且简单的数据存储库门户，该门户广泛涵盖了可用序列数据，同时还有更具针对性和专业性的生物体数据库，以在全球范围内推动无脊椎动物基因组学的发展。因此，本文通过传播无脊椎动物基因组学领域的当前进展和未来前景，旨在促进和推动跨学科及国际研究，从而服务于GIGA的目标。
