Comment on essd-2023-11
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. The performance of numerical, statistical, and data-driven diagnostic and predictive crop production modeling heavily relies on data quality for input and calibration/validation processes. This study presents a comprehensive database and the analytics used to consolidate it as a homogeneous, consistent, and multi-dimensional genotype, phenotypic, and environmental database for maize phenotype modeling, diagnostics, and prediction. The data used is obtained from the Genomes to Fields (G2F) initiative, which provides multi-year genomic (G), environmental (E), and phenotypic (P) datasets that can be used to train and test crop growth models to understand the genotype by environment (GxE) interaction phenomenon. A particular advantage of the G2F database is its diverse set of maize genotype DNA sequences (G2F-G), phenotypic measurements (G2F-P), station-based environmental time series (mainly, climatic data) observations collected during the maize growing season (G2F-E), and metadata for each field trials (G2F-M) across the U.S. and the province of Ontario in Canada. The construction of this comprehensive climate and genomic database incorporates the analytics for data quality control (QC) and consistency control (CC) to consolidate the digital representation of geospatially distributed environmental and genomic data required for phenotype predictive analytics and modeling the GxE interaction. The two-phase QC-CC pre-processing algorithm also includes a module to estimate environmental uncertainties. Generally, this data pipeline collects raw files, checks their formats, corrects data structures, and identifies and cures/imputes missing data. This pipeline uses machine learning techniques to fulfill the environmental time series gaps and quantifies the uncertainty introduced by using other data sources for gaps imputation in G2F-E, discards the missing values in G2F-P, and removes rare variants in G2F-G. Finally, an integrated and enhanced multi-dimensional database is generated. The analytics for improving the G2F database and the improved database called "CLIM4OMICS" follows the FAIR principles, and all the digital resources are available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7490246 (Sarzaeim, et al., 2023).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.033 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.217 | 0.201 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".