Gioti Anastasia, Theodosopoulou Danai, Bravakos Panos, Magoulas Antonios, Kotoulas Georgios
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71500 Gournes, Crete, Greece.
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.
iScience. 2024 May 21;27(6):110062. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110062. eCollection 2024 Jun 21.
As a research infrastructure with a mission to provide services for bioinformatics, ELIXIR aims to identify and inform its target audiences. Here, we present a survey on a community of researchers studying the environment with omics approaches in Greece, one of the youngest member countries of ELIXIR. Personal interviews followed by quantitative and qualitative analysis were employed to document interactions and practices of the community and to perform a gap analysis for the transition toward multiomics and systems biology. Environmental omics in Greece mostly concerns production of data, in large majority on microbes and non-model organisms. Our survey highlighted (1) the popularity and suitability of targeted hands-on training events; (2) data quality and management issues as important elements for the transition to multiomics, and (3) lack of knowledge and misconceptions regarding interoperability, metadata standards, and pre-registration. The publicly available collected answers represent a valuable resource in view of future strategic planning.
作为一个旨在为生物信息学提供服务的研究基础设施，ELIXIR致力于识别并向其目标受众进行宣传。在此，我们展示了一项针对希腊研究人员群体的调查，这些研究人员在希腊运用组学方法研究环境，希腊是ELIXIR最年轻的成员国之一。通过个人访谈，随后进行定量和定性分析，以记录该群体的互动和实践，并对向多组学和系统生物学的过渡进行差距分析。希腊的环境组学主要涉及数据的产生，绝大多数是关于微生物和非模式生物的数据。我们的调查强调了：（1）有针对性的实践培训活动的受欢迎程度和适用性；（2）数据质量和管理问题是向多组学过渡的重要因素；（3）在互操作性、元数据标准和预注册方面缺乏知识和存在误解。鉴于未来的战略规划，公开收集到的答案是一份宝贵的资源。
