Working Groups
How to Join one of our Working Groups!
To join a Working Group (WG) you need to fit one of the following criteria:
- belong to any institution of a COST Member country that is part of COST Action CA17111
- any MC Observer or MC Substitute belonging to the COST Action CA17111
To check which Countries/Institutions belong to COST Action CA17111 please see https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA17111/#tabs|Name:parties
Every Management Committee (MC) Member of the COST Action CA17111 should actively participate in at least one WG.
To join you must firstly create a COST account if you don’t already have one (https://e-services.cost.eu/user/login), then once you have a COST account please contact the WG Leader of the WG of choice (names and email addresses available below).
| Working Groups |
Working Group 1Data interoperability and definition of minimal contextual data standardsThis Working Group will focus on contributing to community-wide standards for metadata along with guidelines for their proper use. WG1 Leader: Reinhard TOEPFER WG1 Vice-Leader: Camille Rustenholz |
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| Prof Reinhard TOEPFER Julius Kühn-Institute Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof Germany Siebeldingen |
Working Group 2Interoperability of infrastructures and web servicesIn this Working group we will develop a bioinformatics infrastructure to facilitate the discovery, acquisition, storage, processing and integration of diverse grapevine datasets, and this will be managed by distinct nodes. WG2 Leader: Paul KERSEY WG2 Vice-Leader: Daniela Haltgrawe |
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| Dr Paul KERSEY Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Richmond Surrey United Kingdom Richmond |
Working Group 3Data analysis and best practicesGuidelines for best practice focusing on the promotion of standard protocols for omics data processing and analysis will be developed and recommended. These guidelines will help researchers to produce high-quality data and carry out informative analysis in the context of a standard framework, which will further contribute to data integration. Additionally, we will build a centralised framework for the standard annotation of grapevine genes. Such a framework will facilitate the integration of different omics data types by relying on standard formats and ontologies. WG3 Leader: Johan TRYGG WG3 Vice-Leader: Jerome Grimplet |
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| Prof Johan TRYGG Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC) Department of Chemistry Umeå University Linneaus vag 10 Umeå Sweden |
Working Group 4Dissemination and user community assessment of guidelines and recommendationsA focus of this Working Group will be training and dissemination of the work done by the other WG possibly in joint activities with dissemination and training activities of other large agnostic initiatives. We will disseminate the recommendations made by other working Groups and train the grapevine community to follow these recommendations. WG4 Leader: Prof Dragan NIKOLIC WG4 Vice-Leader: Panagiotis Kalaitzis |
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| Prof Dragan NIKOLIĆ University of Belgrade Faculty of Agriculture Nemanjina 6 Serbia 11080 Belgrade-Zemun |