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Marine Lifewatch meeting 3-5 June 2014
1. The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal!
contributions to a marine virtual
lab
Anton Van de Putte
Biodiversity.aq
RBINS
HCMR, Crete
2. Antarctic Treaty
« In order to promote international cooperation in
scientific investigation in Antarctica, […],
Scientific observations and results from Antarctica
shall be exchanged and made freely available. »
Our vision:"
Antarctic biodiversity data are open, linked, useful,
interoperable and safe.
3. Background
• Born during the IPY as Census of
Antarctic Marine Life as the data,
visualization and analysis
component
• Free and open access to
biodiversity data
• SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF
projects
• Science, conservation and
management
• Networked community
developments
15. IPT
MiMARKS
mARS
mARS.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
Sequence
set
summary
16. mARS white paper
.
• Step 1: Data description and discovery
• Step 2: Habitat and Microbial Sequence
Metadata Entry
– (MiMARKS Data Standard; Microbial_Sequence_Set_Template)
• Step 3: Georeferenced-molecular sequence
database integration
• Step 4: Processing batch sequence data –
Circum-Antarctic microbial diversity
17. Continued efforts
• Application of informatics techniques to
biodiversity information
• Improved integration, presentation, discovery,
exploration and analysis.
• Yields new ways to view and analyse existing
information, as well as predictive models for
information that does not yet exist.
• Allows data-intensive biodiversity research and
applications (e.g. in conservation)
This is a slide I always start with, as it show the unique environment the Antarctic form and was already
Identification aid
High quality (useful) pictures
Expert Descriptions
Built on-the-fly from various sources
Generates a pdf for taxa/area of interest
The Microbial Antarctic Resources System (mARS) is envisioned as an information system dedicated to facilitate the discovery, access and analysis of geo-referenced, molecular microbial diversity (meta)data generated by Antarctic researchers, in an Open fashion. The scope of diversity will encompass all freel-living and host-associated virus, Bacteria, Archaea, and singled-celled Eukarya.
mARS focuses on past, present and future works. It offers a community-driven platform for scientists to publish, document, analyse and share their (meta)data with the broad community for science, conservation and management purposes, in the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty.