When: Friday, September 18, 1:00 PM
Where: Tyler 108<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reproducibility of research is essential for science. However, in the way modern computational biology research is done, it is easy to lose track of small, but extremely critical, details. Key details, such as the specific version of a software used or iteration of a genome can easily be lost in the shuffle or perhaps not noted at all. Much work is being done on the database and storage side of things, ensuring that there exists a space-to-store experiment-specific details, but current mechanisms for recording details are cumbersome for scientists to use. We introduce a new metadata description language, named MEtaData Format for Open Research Data (MEDFORD), in which scientists can record all details relevant to their research. Being human-readable, easily editable and templatable, MEDFORD serves as a collection point for all notes that a researcher could find relevant to their research, be it for internal use or for future replication. MEDFORD has been applied to coral research, and more recently classical language texts and cybersecurity datasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Noah Daniels is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island. He leads the Algorithms for Big Data research group at URI, and collaboratively leads the MEDFORD metadata project with colleagues at Tufts. His research primarily focuses on algorithms that scale to enormous, rapidly growing, high-dimensional datasets, enabling myriad computational tasks including search, anomaly detection, machine learning, and visualization. More recently, this has extended to questions of FAIR data principles, scientific reproducibility, and automated logging of computational experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When: Friday, September 18, 1:00 PMWhere: Tyler 108 Abstract Reproducibility of research is essential for science. However, in the way modern computational biology research is done, it is easy to lose track of small, but extremely critical, details. Key details, such as the specific version of a software used or iteration of a genome can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,85,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-seminars","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}