| FGED Society | |
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| Abbreviation: | FGED |
| Type: | NPO |
| Purpose: | Scientific |
| Language: | English |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Francis Ouellette |
| Main Organ: | Board of directors |
| Website: | www.fged.org |
The Functional GEnomics Data Society (FGED) (formerly known as the MGED Society)was a non-profit, volunteer-run international organization of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims tofacilitate biological and biomedical discovery through dataintegration. The approach of FGED was to promote the sharing of basic research data generated primarily via high-throughput technologies that generate large data sets within the domain of functional genomics.
Members of the FGED Society worked with other organizations to support the effective sharing and reproducibility of functional genomics data; facilitate the creation ofstandards and software tools that leverage the standards; and promote the sharing of high quality, wellannotated data within the life sciences and biomedical communities.
Founded in 1999 as the "Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society", this organization changed its name to the "Functional Genomics Data Society" in 2010 to reflect the fact that it has broadened its focus beyond the application of DNA microarrays for gene expression analysis to include technologies such as high-throughput sequencing. The scope of the FGED Society includes data generated using any functional genomics technology when applied to genome-scale studies of gene expression, binding, modification and other related applications.
In September 2021, the FGED Society ceased operations.[1]
The FGED Society was formed in 1999 at a meeting on Microarray GeneExpression Databases in recognition of the need to establish standardsfor sharing and storing data from DNA microarray experiments. Originally named the "MGED Society," the society began with a focus on DNA microarrays and gene expression data.
The original MGED Society was incorporated in 2002 as a non-profit public benefit organization with the titleMicroarray Gene Expression Data Society and obtained permanentcharity status in 2007. The MGED name was legally changed in 2007 toMicroarray and Gene Expression Data Society to emphasize a broaderscope.
In September 2008, the Society decided to promote itself simply as theMGED Society to broaden the Society's scope beyond microarray technologyand gene expression applications, yet stillretain the recognized value of the MGED name within the community.
In July 2010, the society voted to change its name to the "Functional Genomics Data (FGED) Society"to reflect its current mission which goes beyond microarrays and gene expression to encompass datagenerated using any functional genomics technology applied togenomic-scale studies of geneexpression, binding, modification (such as DNA methylation), and other related applications. This was formally announced on 14 July 2010 at the society's "MGED13" annual meeting.[2]
Board members and officers of the FGED Society are elected annually each May and start serving in June. Presidents of the FGED Society along with their terms in office are as follows:
The FGED Board of Directors and Advisory Board consist of volunteersfrom academia, industry, government, and journals representing across-section of those generating, analyzing, archiving, andpublishing in the functional genomics area.Although there is no formal membership, the attendees ofthe annual FGED meetings are considered to be part of the FGED community.
To date, FGED has produced a variety of standards specifications pertaining to DNA microarray experiments. These standards are designed to improve the annotation, communication, and sharing of data and findings from such experiments within the life science research community.
Minimal Information about a high-throughput SEQuencing Experiment (MINSEQE) is adata content minimum information standard that describes the essential information needed toadequately document a high-throughput sequencing experiment for the purpose ofinterpretation and replication of the results.[3]
MIAME (Minimal Information About a Microarray Experiment) is adata content standard that describes the essential information needed toadequately document a DNA microarray experiment for the purpose ofinterpretation and replication of the results. It was the first published example of a minimum information standard for high-throughput experiments in the life sciences, and as such, laid the groundwork for similar standards in other bioscience domains.
MAGE-OM (MicroArray Gene ExpressionObject Model) is a data exchange and data modeling standard for use in encoding data from microarray experiments for the purpose of export and importinto software tools and databases via XML files. MAGE-OM is aplatform-independent model implemented in the XML-based MAGE-MLformat.
A new version, MAGE-TAB, has been developed to be easier tounderstand and generate by data producers as it is in a format(tab-delimited) that can be viewed and edited using widely availablespreadsheet software, such as Microsoft Excel.[4]
The MGED Ontology (MO) provides a standard terminology for describing components of aDNA microarray experiment.[5] The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) is being developed as a replacement for the MO. A mapping of ontology terms from MO to OBI is available.[6]
A major component of the FGED Society efforthas been the annual FGED meeting to showcase cutting-edge scientific work and promotestandards.[7]
The FGED Society has held its annual meeting at venues aroundthe world since 1999, coordinating with a local scientific organization that provides space for talks, poster sessions, workshops, and tutorials.
Here is a list of the annual meeting dates and locations for past meetings of the FGED Society.[8] All meetings from 2010 and prior were held under the name "MGED Society".
| Date | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2013 | Seattle, WA, USA[9] | |
| 25 January 2012 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA[10] | |
| 15 July 2010 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA (in conjunction with ISMB) | |
| 8 October 2009 | Phoenix, Arizona, USA | |
| 5 September 2008 | Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy | |
| 5 September 2007 | Brisbane, Australia | |
| 10 September 2006 | Seattle, WA, USA | |
| 13 September 2005 | Bergen, Norway | |
| 10 September 2004 | Toronto, Canada | |
| 5 September 2003 | Aix-en-Provence, France | |
| 27 September 2002 | Plaza Heisei, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 31 March 2001 | Stanford University, CA, USA | |
| 27 May 2000 | DKFZ and EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 15 November 1999 | EBI, Cambridge, UK |