Workshop Report: Functional Evidence Discussion Forum Launch, October 2024

This document reports the findings from the “Functional Evidence Discussion Forum Launch”. The session was held online via Zoom on the 18 October 2024 to a cohort of participants invited to register for the Discussion Forum. The session included a presentation by Dr Alan Rubin with summary information on the MaveDB resource, a resource for sharing experimental data releveant for functional genomics. The session consulted on a proposed Functional Evidence Discussion Forum, aiming to survey the registered participants opinion on the intention, format, scope and general delivery of the proposed Forum. This report was generated from the results of the consultation polls, available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17538156.

The workshop was an activity of the AusMAVE Education Project. The AusMAVE Education Project aims to support increased use of functional data/evidence, especially motivated by the increasing body of high throughput functional data. It is an Australian research project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund, APP2015946. The workshop was co-designed, informed by representatives of identified stakeholders in the AusMAVE Education Project and represents part of a developing project supporting functional evidence use.