1. The IsoGenie database : an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research
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J. L. DelGreco, J Deng, B Huettel, H Axén, Joachim Jansen, KY Chang, F Li, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, U Karaoz, S. B. Hodgkins, Ahmed A. Zayed, S Dominguez, P Tansey, A Cory, R Braswell, Eleanor E. Campbell, Vining, T Marcus, Paul N. Evans, F. Sullivan, Clarice R. Perryman, Patrick M. Crill, K Solheim, Joanne B. Emerson, B Ziniti, Samantha McCabe, Dylan R. Cronin, K. Crossen, Michael W. Palace, Melissa B. Duhaime, I Morales, Martin Wik, Joel A. Boyd, T. Logan, D Anderson, J Kolengowski, Saleska, Stephen E. Frolking, Eoin L. Brodie, Jessica G. Ernakovich, C. K. McCalley, S. A. Burke, Benjamin Bolduc, C. Herrick, Nathan C. VerBerkmoes, Jeffrey P. Chanton, A. Garnello, K Winters, F Fahnestock, G Zane, Moira Hough, Louis J. Lamit, M Martinez, Robert M. Jones, Eh Kim, Virginia I. Rich, J Fisk, William T. Cooper, C Li, Rachel M. Wilson, Robert D. Hoelzle, N Torbick, Ellen Dorrepaal, N. Raab, D Nguyen, Ruth K. Varner, Apryl L. Perry, William J. Riley, Richard Wehr, Caitlin M. Singleton, K Bennett, Joanne H. Shorter, M. M. Tfaily, Matthew B. Sullivan, Rhiannon Mondav, Gene W. Tyson, Ben J. Woodcroft, Gareth Trubl, and Amelia McClure
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Data management ,lcsh:Medicine ,computer.software_genre ,01 natural sciences ,Medical and Health Sciences ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Database ,03 medical and health sciences ,Interdisciplinary ,Ecosystem ,Architecture ,Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ,030304 developmental biology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,0303 health sciences ,Graph database ,Information analysis ,Ecosystem science ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Suite ,lcsh:R ,Environmental research ,General Medicine ,Biological Sciences ,Data structure ,Product type ,Multidisciplinär geovetenskap ,Stordalen mire ,IsoGenie project ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,business ,computer - Abstract
Modern microbial and ecosystem sciences require diverse interdisciplinary teams that are often challenged in “speaking” to one another due to different languages and data product types. Here we introduce the IsoGenie Database (IsoGenieDB; https://isogenie-db.asc.ohio-state.edu/), a de novo developed data management and exploration platform, as a solution to this challenge of accurately representing and integrating heterogenous environmental and microbial data across ecosystem scales. The IsoGenieDB is a public and private data infrastructure designed to store and query data generated by the IsoGenie Project, a ~10 year DOE-funded project focused on discovering ecosystem climate feedbacks in a thawing permafrost landscape. The IsoGenieDB provides (i) a platform for IsoGenie Project members to explore the project’s interdisciplinary datasets across scales through the inherent relationships among data entities, (ii) a framework to consolidate and harmonize the datasets needed by the team’s modelers, and (iii) a public venue that leverages the same spatially explicit, disciplinarily integrated data structure to share published datasets. The IsoGenieDB is also being expanded to cover the NASA-funded Archaea to Atmosphere (A2A) project, which scales the findings of IsoGenie to a broader suite of Arctic peatlands, via the umbrella A2A Database (A2A-DB). The IsoGenieDB’s expandability and flexible architecture allow it to serve as an example ecosystems database.
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- 2020