Biography
Dr. Allyson Lister completed a BA (1997) in Biology and Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations from Rice University, an MSc (1999) in Computational Biology from the University of York and a PhD (2012) in Computer Science from Newcastle University.
In 1999, she joined the European Bioinformatics Institute as a Software Engineer for UniProtKB, a protein sequence database. In 2006, she joined Newcastle University as a full-time Research Associate while completing her PhD in semantic data integration. Between 2012 and 2014, she also worked for the University of Manchester on various short-term ontology development projects.
Allyson moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in 2015 where she is currently working on the FAIRsharing project.
Outreach Work
Allyson is an active STEM Ambassador, running STEM sessions and activities for local primary and secondary schools. She has also participated in the development of STEM Learning's educational resources for schools, including being filmed for two of the "Movies and Magic" STEM practicals aimed at 9-11 year olds.
She has been interviewed by the National STEM Learning Centre about her experiences as a STEM ambassador as part of an “Inspiring Young People in STEM” online course.
Allyson has also participated in two WISE programmes with a particular focus on encouraging girls to pursue STEM subjects: My Skills My Life and People Like Me. She is listed as a role model within these campaigns, enabling girls aged 11 and above to learn about and identify with women in STEM, and to receive advice on STEM degrees and career paths.
Most Recent Publications
The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers.
Rocca-Serra P, Gu W, Ioannidis V, Abbassi-Daloii T, Capella-Gutierrez S et al. (2023), Scientific data, 10(1), 292
SBML level 3: An extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models
Keating SM, Dräger A, Chaouiya C, Bergmann FT, Gillespie CS et al. (2020), Molecular Systems Biology, 16(8)
Helping the Consumers and Producers of Standards, Repositories and Policies to Enable FAIR Data
McQuilton P, Batista D, Beyan O, Granell R, Coles S et al. (2020), DATA INTELLIGENCE, 2(1-2), 151-157
FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies
Sansone S, McQuilton P, Rocca-Serra P, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Izzo M et al. (2019), Nature Biotechnology, 37(4), 358-367
Mapping subjects and domains across the humanities and natural sciences in FAIRsharing
Lister AL, McQuilton P, Thurston M & Sansone SA (2019), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2849, 133-134
Research Interests
Allyson's research interests focus on the facilitation of scientific data sharing as well as the development of data standards and ontologies.
Most of her current work involves the curation of FAIRsharing, a project that helps researchers discover and use scientific resources, and which helps producers of databases and standards make their resources more widely adopted.
Allyson has an extensive background in data standardisation and biological data integration, including SBML, OBI, and ISA-TAB (part of the ISA Framework).
Research Groups
Most Recent Publications
The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers.
Rocca-Serra P, Gu W, Ioannidis V, Abbassi-Daloii T, Capella-Gutierrez S et al. (2023), Scientific data, 10(1), 292
SBML level 3: An extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models
Keating SM, Dräger A, Chaouiya C, Bergmann FT, Gillespie CS et al. (2020), Molecular Systems Biology, 16(8)
Helping the Consumers and Producers of Standards, Repositories and Policies to Enable FAIR Data
McQuilton P, Batista D, Beyan O, Granell R, Coles S et al. (2020), DATA INTELLIGENCE, 2(1-2), 151-157
FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies
Sansone S, McQuilton P, Rocca-Serra P, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Izzo M et al. (2019), Nature Biotechnology, 37(4), 358-367
Mapping subjects and domains across the humanities and natural sciences in FAIRsharing
Lister AL, McQuilton P, Thurston M & Sansone SA (2019), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2849, 133-134
Selected Publications
Allyson's full listing of research papers are available via ORCID and Google Scholar.
- FAIRsharing, a cohesive community approach to the growth in standards, repositories and policies, Sansone et al., bioRxiv, 2018, DOI: 10.1101/245183
- The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, Bandrowski et al., PLoS ONE, 2016, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154556
- Controlled vocabularies and semantics in systems biology, Courtot et al., Molecular Systems Biology, 2011, DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.77
- MIREOT: The minimum information to reference an external ontology term, Courtot et al., Applied Ontology, 2011, DOI: 10.3233/AO-2011-0087
Most Recent Publications
The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers.
Rocca-Serra P, Gu W, Ioannidis V, Abbassi-Daloii T, Capella-Gutierrez S et al. (2023), Scientific data, 10(1), 292
SBML level 3: An extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models
Keating SM, Dräger A, Chaouiya C, Bergmann FT, Gillespie CS et al. (2020), Molecular Systems Biology, 16(8)
Helping the Consumers and Producers of Standards, Repositories and Policies to Enable FAIR Data
McQuilton P, Batista D, Beyan O, Granell R, Coles S et al. (2020), DATA INTELLIGENCE, 2(1-2), 151-157
FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies
Sansone S, McQuilton P, Rocca-Serra P, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Izzo M et al. (2019), Nature Biotechnology, 37(4), 358-367
Mapping subjects and domains across the humanities and natural sciences in FAIRsharing
Lister AL, McQuilton P, Thurston M & Sansone SA (2019), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2849, 133-134
