Published March 7, 2014 | Version v1
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The founding charter of the Genomic Observatories Network

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California Berkeley , BP 244 98728 Moorea, French Polynesia and Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
  • 2. Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK and Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG, UK and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK
  • 3. The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, MA 02543, USA
  • 4. British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cros s, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
  • 5. Berkeley Natural History Museums, 1007 Valley Life Sciences, Universit y of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  • 6. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand and Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 7. The Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  • 8. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University, 8272 Mos s Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
  • 9. Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA and Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  • 10. Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen, Germany and Jacobs University Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 11. Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, UK
  • 12. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA
  • 13. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC-163, Washington, DC 20013, USA
  • 14. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, E-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 15. USR 3278 CNRS - EPHE Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE), BP 1013 - 98 729 Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia
  • 16. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
  • 17. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK and Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
  • 18. Department of Ecology and Genetics and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsa la University, Norbyv. 18D, SE-75236 Uppsala, Sweden
  • 19. Independent Scientific Adviser, 2 rue de la Tour de Magnan, 06 000 Nice, France
  • 20. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 106, Washington, DC 20013, USA
  • 21. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG, UK
  • 22. Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
  • 23. PersonalGenomes.org, Boston, MA 02215, USA
  • 24. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • 25. AZTI-Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Herrera Kaia, Portualdea s/n, 20110 Pasaia, Spain
  • 26. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0371, USA
  • 27. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Ans talt Helgoland, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
  • 28. Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  • 29. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, AOML stationed in La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92037, USA
  • 30. Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
  • 31. Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia
  • 32. National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
  • 33. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Be rkeley, CA 94720, USA
  • 34. Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS - UPMC, Place Georges Teissier, CS 90074, 29688 Roscoff Cedex, France
  • 35. Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
  • 36. Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen, Germany and Jacobs University Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 37. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA and Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Computer Science, and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, 3415 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
  • 38. Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 39. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720- 3160, USA
  • 40. Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBBC), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Heraklion, Greece
  • 41. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and Environment Institute, Unive rsity of Adelaide, Adelaide SA5005, Australia
  • 42. Food Safety, Environment & Genetics, Matis ldt. Vinlandsleid 12, 113 Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 43. Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
  • 44. School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  • 45. Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
  • 46. Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
  • 47. Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA
  • 48. AZTI-Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Txatxarramendi ugartea z/g, Sukarrieta 48395, Bizkaia, Spain
  • 49. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK
  • 50. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
  • 51. Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, The King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH93JT, UK
  • 52. Biomatters Ltd., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
  • 53. Center for Research on BioSystems, University of California, San Diego, C A 92093-5004, USA
  • 54. Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
  • 55. Ecology and Evolution of Plankton Laboratory, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy

Description

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.

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Funding

European Commission
MICRO B3 - Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 287589