The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology

The iPlant Collaborative (iPlant) is a United States National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project that aims to create an innovative, comprehensive, and foundational cyberinfrastructure in support of plant biology research (PSCIC, 2006). iPlant is developing cyberinfrastructure that uniquely enab...

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Published in:	Frontiers in plant science Vol. 2; p. 34
Main Authors:	Goff, Stephen A, Vaughn, Matthew, McKay, Sheldon, Lyons, Eric, Stapleton, Ann E, Gessler, Damian, Matasci, Naim, Wang, Liya, Hanlon, Matthew, Lenards, Andrew, Muir, Andy, Merchant, Nirav, Lowry, Sonya, Mock, Stephen, Helmke, Matthew, Kubach, Adam, Narro, Martha, Hopkins, Nicole, Micklos, David, Hilgert, Uwe, Gonzales, Michael, Jordan, Chris, Skidmore, Edwin, Dooley, Rion, Cazes, John, McLay, Robert, Lu, Zhenyuan, Pasternak, Shiran, Koesterke, Lars, Piel, William H, Grene, Ruth, Noutsos, Christos, Gendler, Karla, Feng, Xin, Tang, Chunlao, Lent, Monica, Kim, Seung-Jin, Kvilekval, Kristian, Manjunath, B S, Tannen, Val, Stamatakis, Alexandros, Sanderson, Michael, Welch, Stephen M, Cranston, Karen A, Soltis, Pamela, Soltis, Doug, O'Meara, Brian, Ane, Cecile, Brutnell, Tom, Kleibenstein, Daniel J, White, Jeffery W, Leebens-Mack, James, Donoghue, Michael J, Spalding, Edgar P, Vision, Todd J, Myers, Christopher R, Lowenthal, David, Enquist, Brian J, Boyle, Brad, Akoglu, Ali, Andrews, Greg, Ram, Sudha, Ware, Doreen, Stein, Lincoln, Stanzione, Dan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 01-01-2011 Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects:	bioinformatics cross-disciplinary collaborations cyberinfrastructure High performance computing Plant Science computational biology cyberinfrastructure plant biology bioinformatics
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Summary:	The iPlant Collaborative (iPlant) is a United States National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project that aims to create an innovative, comprehensive, and foundational cyberinfrastructure in support of plant biology research (PSCIC, 2006). iPlant is developing cyberinfrastructure that uniquely enables scientists throughout the diverse fields that comprise plant biology to address Grand Challenges in new ways, to stimulate and facilitate cross-disciplinary research, to promote biology and computer science research interactions, and to train the next generation of scientists on the use of cyberinfrastructure in research and education. Meeting humanity's projected demands for agricultural and forest products and the expectation that natural ecosystems be managed sustainably will require synergies from the application of information technologies. The iPlant cyberinfrastructure design is based on an unprecedented period of research community input, and leverages developments in high-performance computing, data storage, and cyberinfrastructure for the physical sciences. iPlant is an open-source project with application programming interfaces that allow the community to extend the infrastructure to meet its needs. iPlant is sponsoring community-driven workshops addressing specific scientific questions via analysis tool integration and hypothesis testing. These workshops teach researchers how to add bioinformatics tools and/or datasets into the iPlant cyberinfrastructure enabling plant scientists to perform complex analyses on large datasets without the need to master the command-line or high-performance computational services.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Gane Ka-Shu Wong, University of Alberta, Canada Reviewed by: Michael Deyholos, University of Alberta, Canada; Sean W. Graham, University of British Columbia, Canada This article was submitted to Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics, a specialty of Frontiers in Plant Science.
ISSN:	1664-462X 1664-462X
DOI:	10.3389/fpls.2011.00034