NOAA 'Omics White Paper: Informing the NOAA 'Omics Strategy and Implementation Plan

This document (“white paper”) was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ‘Omics Task Force (OTF), a cross-NOAA interdisciplinary team established by the NOAA Research Council. The OTF was tasked in 2018 with documenting the portfolio of ‘omics research and activities across the organization, identifying priorities, fostering integration and communication, and formulating solutions to implementation challenges in this nascent sector of research. This document informed the creation of the 2020 NOAA ‘Omics Strategy, NOAA ‘Omics Fact Sheet, and NOAA ‘Omics Implementation Plan and thus provides important supplemental information to those documents.