ISO/TC 347 Webinar 18--Context matters: Unlocking value in plant health sequencing (meta)data

Plant-health next-generation sequencing (NGS) data are increasingly used for diagnostics, surveillance, quarantine testing, and more, but the value of these data depends on the context metadata that accompanies them (sample identity, laboratory workflow, etc.) Our presenter, Dr. Shiyu Chen of BGI Research (Sanya, ChIna) explains why contextual metadata is essential for interpreting and reusing plant-health NGS data; how a proposed ISO project will support traceability and interoperability through metadata, provenance, and information integrity; and how to join the effort. A Q&A session follows. This is webinar #18 in ISO/TC 347's series on working together towards secure and thriving agrifood systems. This series is designed to explore key technical areas where standardization can support innovation, sustainability, and interoperability in agrifood systems. ISO Technical Committee 347 was created to provide a home for standards to enable data-driven decisions in the world’s agrifood systems, and to help eliminate the data interoperability problems that have so far prevented doing this at scale.