WP1 - Scientific Coordination

This work package covers all the higher-level oversight and scientific control measures needed to make the project a success. It thus impinges on all of WP2-10. Work package activities primarily involve gathering and reacting to new scientific ideas, optimising the use made of the project committees, and supervising work package leaders as they execute their role. It also involves ensuring that all project results are produced using appropriate quality policies. For this latter undertaking, robust quality assessment procedures will be devised by the work package and suitably applied to all technology development work packages, especially WP4, WP5, and WP6. Furthermore, this work package will provide ethical oversight of the whole project, and as part of this it will undertake specific ethical assessment exercises as and when the need arises. WP1 will thus provide the central ‘leadership’ role upon which all other work packages will depend. To perform these roles, WP1 will be strongly intertwined with WP10, so that scientific leadership and management of the project are mutually reinforced as drivers of the initiative.

A particular priority for WP1 will be that of continually assessing the effectiveness and utility of the items emerging from GEN2PHEN. To this end, WP1 will organise a rolling 'Pilot Project' that will entail trying to use the developing G2P database network for the purpose for which it was created - i.e., to explore G2P relationships in depth and across a range of species and situations. This Pilot will be run towards the start of the project, and then again every year or so, with resulting documented findings being used by the GEN2PHEN Consortium to recursively adapt and improve our project activities. This activity will thus fundamentally assess and potentially redirect efforts in all other work packages.