The founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network

Neil Davies (1, 2) , Dawn Field (3, 2, 4) , Linda Amaral-Zettler (5) , Melody S. Clark (6) , John Deck (7) , Alexei Drummond (8, 9) , Daniel P. Faith (10) , Jonathan Geller (11) , Jack Gilbert (12, 13) , Frank Oliver Glöckner (14, 15) , Penny R. Hirsch (16) , Jo-Ann Leong (17) , Chris Meyer (18) , Matthias Obst (19) , Serge Planes (20) , Chris Scholin (21) , Alfried P. Vogler (22, 23) , Ruth D Gates (17) , Rob Toonen (17) , Veronique Berteaux-Lecellier (20) , Michèle Barbier (24) , Katherine Barker (25) , Stefan Bertilsson (26) , Mesude Bicak (4) , Matthew J. Bietz (27) , Jason Bobe (28) , Levente Bodrossy (29) , Angel Borja (30) , Jonathan Coddington (25) , Jed Fuhrman (31) , Gunnar Gerdts (32) , Rosemary Gillespie (33) , Kelly Goodwin (34) , Paul C. Hanson (35) , Jean-Marc Hero (36) , David Hoekman (37) , Janet K. Jansson (38) , Christian Jeanthon (39) , Rebecca Kao (40) , Anna Klindworth (15, 14) , Rob Knight (41, 42) , Renzo Kottmann (15, 14) , Michelle S. Koo (43) , Georgios Kotoulas (44) , Andrew J. Lowe (45) , Viggo Thor Marteinsson (46) , Folker Meyer (12) , Norman Morrison (47) , David D. Myrold (48) , Evangelos Pafilis (44) , Stephanie Parker (37) , John Jacob Parnell (37) , Paraskevi N. Polymenakou (44) , Sujeevan Ratnasingham (49) , George K. Roderick (50) , Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta (51) , Karsten Schonrogge (3) , Nathalie Simon (39) , Nathalie J. Valette-Silver (52) , Yuri P. Springer (37) , Graham N. Stone (53) , Steve Stones-Havas (54) , Susanna-Assunta Sansone (4) , Kate M. Thibault (37) , Patricia Wecker (20) , Antje Wichels (31) , John C. Wooley (55) , Tetsukazu Yahara (56) , Adriana Zingone (57) , Gos-Cos Gos-Cos (58)

1 Richard B Gump South Pacific Research Station
2 Biodiversity institute, department of zoology
3 CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology [Wallingford]
4 Oxford e-Research Centre [Oxford]
5 The Josephine Bay Paul Center for comparative molecular biology and evolution
6 BAS - British Antarctic Survey
7 Berkeley natural history museums
8 Department of computer science
9 Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
10 The Australian Museum
11 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
12 Institute for genomic and systems biology
13 Department of Ecology and Evolution [Chicago]
14 Jacobs University = Constructor University [Bremen]
15 Microbial genomics and bioinformatics research group
16 Rothamsted Research
17 Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
18 Department of Invertebrate Zoology
19 Department of biological and environmental sciences
20 CRIOBE - Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement
21 MBARI - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
22 Department of Life Sciences
23 Department of life sciences
24 Chercheur indépendant
25 National Museum of Natural History
26 EBC - Department of Ecology and Genetics [Uppsala]
27 Department of informatics
28 PersonalGenomes.org
29 CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra]
30 AZTI - Tecnalia
31 Department of biological sciences
32 Biologische Anstalt Helgoland
33 Essig Museum of Entomology
34 NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
35 Center for Limnology
36 Environmental futures research institute
37 National ecological observatory network
38 LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley]
39 MAPP - Procaryotes Phototrophes Marins = MArine Phototrophic Prokaryotes
40 Denver Botanic Gardens
41 HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Chevy Chase]
42 Departments of Chemistry & biochemistry and computer science and BioFrontiers institute
43 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology [Berkeley]
44 IMBBC
45 Terrestrial ecosystem research network and environment institute
46 Matis
47 School of computer science
48 Department of crop and soil science
49 Biodiversity institute of Ontario
50 ESPM - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management [Berkeley]
51 AZTI
52 ESRL - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
53 Institute of Evolutionary Biology
54 Biomatters Ltd.
55 Center for research on biosystems
56 Center for asian conservation ecology
57 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
58 GOs-COS

The co-authors of this paper hereby state their intention to work together to launch the Genomic Observatories Network (GOs Network) for which this document will serve as its Founding Charter. We define a Genomic Observatory as an ecosystem and/or site subject to long-term scientific research, including (but not limited to) the sustained study of genomic biodiversity from single-celled microbes to multicellular organisms. An international group of 64 scientists first published the call for a global network of Genomic Observatories in January 2012. The vision for such a network was expanded in a subsequent paper and developed over a series of meetings in Bremen (Germany), Shenzhen (China), Moorea (French Polynesia), Oxford (UK), Pacific Grove (California, USA), Washington (DC, USA), and London (UK). While this community-building process continues, here we express our mutual intent to establish the GOs Network formally, and to describe our shared vision for its future. The views expressed here are ours alone as individual scientists, and do not necessarily represent those of the institutions with which we are affiliated.

Mots clés: Biodiversity; Genomics; Biocode; Earth observations

Domaines: Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]

Neil Davies, Dawn Field, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Melody S. Clark, John Deck, et al.. The founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network. GigaScience, 2014, 3, pp.2. ⟨10.1186/2047-217X-3-2⟩. ⟨hal-01110116⟩