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**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A CELLULOSE INFORMATICS NAMED AS CELLOGRAPH. IT WILL INCLUDE A CELLULOSE ONTOLOGY, CELLULOSE DATABASE, CELLULOSE DATA ANALYTICAL TOOL AS WELL AS A WEBSITE AS THE GATE TO THE INFORMATICS. CELLOGRAPH IS THE PORTMANTEAU OF CELLULOSE AND GRAPH, I.E. IT IS A RECORD OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN THE LITERATURE. ONTOLOGY IS SIMILAR AS TAXONOMY, THESAURUS, OR GLOSSARY. IT IS A TERM MEANING A COMPUTER-INTERPRETABLE SET OF TERMS, PROPOSITIONS, AND AXIOMS OVER WHICH REASONING CAN BE PERFORMED BY COMPUTER PROGRAMS. ONTOLOGY IS A FRAMEWORK OF CONCEPTS; KNOWLEDGE IS SPECIFIC DATA. WHEN WE THINK OF TREES, IT IS ONTOLOGY; BUT AN OAK TREE IN ONE'S BACKYARD NAMED AS DOGGY DOUG IS AN INSTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE. IN THESE SENSES, FIRSTLY, CELLOGRAPH IS PLANNING TO ORGANIZE CONCEPTS IN THE CELLULOSE DOMAIN AS A COHERENT SEARCHABLE TREE STRUCTURE AFFORDING CONVENIENCE OF LOOKING UP. SECONDLY, CELLOGRAPH WILL ALSO SUBSTANTIATE EACH CONCEPT WITH SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE FROM THE CELLULOSE LITERATURE. IT WOULD BE A SYSTEM THAT CAN RETRIEVE THE DATA ON CELLULOSIC ENTITIES, THEIR ATTRIBUTES, AND RELATIONS, VISUALIZE THE DATA, AND APPLY MACHINE LEARNING OR OTHER ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS TO THE DATA TO MINE PATTERNS, INSIGHTS, AND PERSPECTIVES. IF SUCCESSFUL, THIS EFFORT WOULD CREATE A POWERFUL RESOURCE THAT INCREASES EFFICIENCYIN SEARCHING FOR CELLULOSIC DATA, REDUCE DUPLICATION OF RESEARCH EFFORT, CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGER DATA SETS FOR EVALUATION AROUND A RESEARCH QUESTION, AND GENERATE A SYNERGISTIC CAPABILITY FOR FINDING AND FILLING GAPS, AND ALLOW FOR RAPID ADVANCEMENT IN THE CELLULOSIC RESEARCH AREA.

$500,000FY2021National Institute of Food and AgricultureUSDA

University Of Maine System

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