FAIR BioHeaders

Metadata and provenance for reference genomes.

The future is FAIR: a community framework for enhanced data management and data sharing

Published in Database, 2026

This article describes the AgBioData consortium’s work on data management and sharing across agricultural genomic, genetic, and breeding databases. Outcomes include recommendations for genomic data standards, ontology usage, data federation, interoperability, and FAIR data training.

Relevance to FAIR bioHeaders: The community framework places FAIR bioHeaders in the broader effort to make genomic data easier to discover, integrate, and reuse.

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Marrano, Annarita; Andorf, Carson; Campbell, Jacqueline D; Cannon, Ethalinda; Coe, Michael; Cooper, Laurel; Dyer, Sarah; Harrison, Peter W; Kumari, Sunita; Jung, Sook; Main, Dorrie; McNamara, John; Molik, David; Naithani, Sushma; Poelchau, Monica F; Staton, Margaret E; Selby, Peter; Sen, Taner Z; Tello-Ruiz, Marcela K; Reiser, Leonore. The future is FAIR: a community framework for enhanced data management and data sharing. Database, 2026. 2026.

https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baag058