Welcome to the ABC Guide!
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This guide provides guidance and best practices for collaborative and interdisciplinary (computer science + biology/ecology) work at the ABC Global Center. It is focused on ABC member needs while remaining broadly applicable to anyone working in similar or adjacent fields. The website is generated from Markdown documents with Material for MkDocs to increase accessibility for those less familiar with GitHub.
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This guide houses the information needed to get started with and use center resources readily available to all ABC members. It was developed based on the more general Collaborative Distributed Science Guide, which was a joint effort between ABC and Imageomics to generalize the Imageomics Guide for a broader audience (please see the template repository for more information). The template guide solution was born out of the desire to host an analogous site for the AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center while limiting duplicative updates between guides (ABC and Imageomics share some team members on this project).
If you'd like to contribute to this guide, please read our Contributing Guidelines for information about our standards, development workflow, and submission process.
To test this site locally, first clone this repository, then create an environment with requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt
and run mkdocs serve:
mkdocs serve
Then the site will run at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ABC-guide/.
This work was supported by both the Imageomics Institute and the AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. The Imageomics Institute is funded by the US National Science Foundation's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program under Award #2118240 (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning). The ABC Global Center is funded by the US National Science Foundation under Award No. 2330423 and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under Award No. 585136. This guide draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, or Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.