FAIR Header Reference genome: a TRUSTworthy standard

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Acknowledgement

The authors thank Natalie Meyers with The Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society at the University of Notre Dame for conversations around research communities focused on metadata standards that were used in the writing of the manuscript. The authors thank Monica Poelchau with the National Agriculture Library and Sarah Dyer at EMBL EBI for relevant discussions.

Funding

Adam Wright is supported by the Adaptive Oncology Programme at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. During a portion of this project, David Molik is supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) HQ Research Associate program in Big Data.

A portion of this work was carried out by the Tropical Pest Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Unit, ARS Project number 2040-22430-028-000D.

A portion of this work was carried out by the Arthropod borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, ARS Project numbers 3020-32000-018-000-D, 3020-32000-020-000-D, and 3020- 32000-019-000-D.

This research used resources provided by the SCINet project of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, ARS project number 0500-00093-001-00-D.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the WormBase grant (U24HG002223), which provided funding for this research. This grant has been instrumental in supporting the contributions of Karen Yook, Daniela Raciti, Paul Sternberg, Adam Wright, Lincoln Stein and Scott Cain. Their efforts have significantly contributed to the success of this project.

Data Availability

The code published for FHR is in the public domain per the United States 17 U.S.C. § 105. The code and specification are freely available for use and modification (Table 4).