Quarterly User Update (October – December 2024) and review of 2024
Welcome to our first update of the year – covering announcements and highlights from last quarter, and celebrating team, users, and collaborators accomplishments from 2024.
Team Highlights
Nathalie Delherbe, San Diego State University, at the Joint Genome Institute meeting presenting her poster on methanogenic microbiomes and plants in arid environments.
The KBase team had a busy final quarter of 2024 hosting workshops and traveling to conferences! At the start of October, we held a workshop at the Joint Genome Institute’s annual meeting in Walnut Creek, CA which was a great opportunity to connect with KBase users. In November, we co-hosted a session with the JGI at the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) conference in Phoenix, AZ on how to get and track credit for scientific contributions. We also hosted two educator-centered workshops on the Microbiomes In Computational Research Opportunities Network (MICROnet – https://www.kbase.us/engage/microbiome-training/) at Connecting Microbiome Communities (CMiC) in San Diego, CA and the American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) in Pittsburgh, PA.
KBase workshop led by Ben Allen introducing the platform to a group of students during a workshop at SUNY ESF. Courtesy of Jennifer Goff, SUNY ESF.
The team also visited University of California – Irvine, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and State University of New York College Of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) for in-person workshops with graduate students and faculty members to round out our outreach for the year.
Over the course of 2024, KBase hosted and supported 13 in-person/hybrid workshops (including our first international workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, and 7 webinars, with over 850 KBase users in attendance! Follow KBase on LinkedIn for news on upcoming webinars and events.
ISME19 workshop participants at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa.
Publications using KBase
The platform and team behind KBase continues to support users to analyze their data and follow the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles through to publication. Studies spanned from a huge collaboration on sampling rivers through the Genome Resolved Open Watershed Database (Borton et al. Nature; https://kbase.us/n/109073/63/) to undergraduate student data publications through MICROnet (Behar et al. 2024 Microbiology Resource Announcements).
We issued 13 Static Narrative DOIs for user publications this past year, and are able to track dataset metrics to understand how the community uses published KBase data. Read more about Publishing in KBase, and if you are curious about how we are working to measure the impact of your data analysis efforts, beyond publications, please contact us!
All publications using KBase are available at: https://www.kbase.us/research. If we are missing your publication citing KBase in your methods, please let us know at engage@kbase.us.
Summary
And finally, to close out our update, here is a summary of our 2024 user numbers. Keep doing great science in KBase – our team is here to support you!
KBase by the numbers from the Quarterly Report covering October through December 2024.
