Group 03

From IPCMeeting042008

[edit] Biotic and abiotic interactions, from biochemistry and cell biology to ecosystems

[edit] Location

Bush Fireplace Room

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[edit] Agenda

• Moderator: Laurie Kirsch, Pittsburgh
• Facilitator: Doreen Ware, CSHL
• Note Taker: TBD
• Discussion Leaders (tentative): Fumi Katigiri, Rob Last, Mary Lou Guerinot, David Rand, John Nason, Mark Schildauer, Steve Slater

Questions and goals for discussion in break-out groups

1. What is the nature of a grand challenge that is both compelling and tractable?
2. What are the essential infrastructural data sets that iPC should ensure are available to the community for these grand challenges? (Where are these datasets available? Would you like these to be linked to each other, and if so how? For these datasets, should iPC act as the primary repository, as a mirror, or as an interface? Which of these sets require curation? How frequently should these sets be refreshed? What sort of documentation and metadata do you need to have for these datasets? How would you want the quality of the data to be documented?)
3. What algorithms and analytic methods should iPC ensure are available to the community for these grand challenges? (Are these currently available and if so where? If these methods/algorithms are computationally intensive, how should compute resources be allocated equitably?)
4. What new types of algorithms, analytical models, and visualizations do you think are necessary to create in the iPC? Can you summarize these and show how they may be useful to the plant biology community at large.
5. How will education, outreach, and training be addressed in these grand challenges? What knowledge and skills do the next generation need to work on such multidisciplinary questions?
6. What sort of social networking tools do we need to enable effective collaboration?
7. How do we engage the computing research community to make them aware of cutting edge research opportunities in their disciplines?

How do we motivate computing researchers to participate in this collaborative?

1. What do you think would help a diverse grand challenge team (diverse in terms of background and geography) collaborate effectively?
2. What computer-based tools do you think would help the grand challenge teams in developing their questions and pursuing their research?

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