TY - JOUR KW - Agriculture KW - Breeding KW - Databases, Genetic KW - Gene Ontology KW - Genomics KW - Metadata KW - Surveys and Questionnaires AU - Lisa Harper AU - Jacqueline Campbell AU - Ethalinda Cannon AU - Sook Jung AU - Monica Poelchau AU - Ramona Walls AU - Carson Andorf AU - Elizabeth Arnaud AU - Tanya Berardini AU - Clayton Birkett AU - Steve Cannon AU - James Carson AU - Bradford Condon AU - Laurel Cooper AU - Nathan Dunn AU - Christine Elsik AU - Andrew Farmer AU - Stephen Ficklin AU - David Grant AU - Emily Grau AU - Nic Herndon AU - Zhi-Liang Hu AU - Jodi Humann AU - Pankaj Jaiswal AU - Clement Jonquet AU - Marie-Angélique Laporte AU - Pierre Larmande AU - Gerard Lazo AU - Fiona McCarthy AU - Naama Menda AU - Christopher Mungall AU - Monica Munoz-Torres AU - Sushma Naithani AU - Rex Nelson AU - Daureen Nesdill AU - Carissa Park AU - James Reecy AU - Leonore Reiser AU - Lacey-Anne Sanderson AU - Taner Sen AU - Margaret Staton AU - Sabarinath Subramaniam AU - Marcela Tello-Ruiz AU - Victor Unda AU - Deepak Unni AU - Liya Wang AU - Doreen Ware AU - Jill Wegrzyn AU - Jason Williams AU - Margaret Woodhouse AU - Jing Yu AU - Doreen Main AB - The future of agricultural research depends on data. The sheer volume of agricultural biological data being produced today makes excellent data management essential. Governmental agencies, publishers and science funders require data management plans for publicly funded research. Furthermore, the value of data increases exponentially when they are properly stored, described, integrated and shared, so that they can be easily utilized in future analyses. AgBioData (https://www.agbiodata.org) is a consortium of people working at agricultural biological databases, data archives and knowledgbases who strive to identify common issues in database development, curation and management, with the goal of creating database products that are more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We strive to promote authentic, detailed, accurate and explicit communication between all parties involved in scientific data. As a step toward this goal, we present the current state of biocuration, ontologies, metadata and persistence, database platforms, programmatic (machine) access to data, communication and sustainability with regard to data curation. Each section describes challenges and opportunities for these topics, along with recommendations and best practices. BT - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30239679?dopt=Abstract DA - 2018 01 01 DO - 10.1093/database/bay088 J2 - Database (Oxford) LA - eng N2 - The future of agricultural research depends on data. The sheer volume of agricultural biological data being produced today makes excellent data management essential. Governmental agencies, publishers and science funders require data management plans for publicly funded research. Furthermore, the value of data increases exponentially when they are properly stored, described, integrated and shared, so that they can be easily utilized in future analyses. AgBioData (https://www.agbiodata.org) is a consortium of people working at agricultural biological databases, data archives and knowledgbases who strive to identify common issues in database development, curation and management, with the goal of creating database products that are more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We strive to promote authentic, detailed, accurate and explicit communication between all parties involved in scientific data. As a step toward this goal, we present the current state of biocuration, ontologies, metadata and persistence, database platforms, programmatic (machine) access to data, communication and sustainability with regard to data curation. Each section describes challenges and opportunities for these topics, along with recommendations and best practices. PY - 2018 T2 - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation TI - AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture. VL - 2018 SN - 1758-0463 ER -