TY - JOUR
T1 - The iPlant Collaborative
T2 - Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences
AU - Merchant, Nirav
AU - Lyons, Eric
AU - Goff, Stephen
AU - Vaughn, Matthew
AU - Ware, Doreen
AU - Micklos, David
AU - Antin, Parker
N1 - Funding Information: Over the last decade, the discipline of life sciences has benefited tremendously from new, massively parallel, and highly quantitative technologies. These technologies have facilitated rapid data acquisition at an increasingly higher resolution and throughput across all forms of modalities, from super-resolution microscopy to DNA sequencing technologies. Transformational advances in information technology have complemented this phenomenal growth in data acquisition, including cloud and high performance computing, large-scale data management systems, and high-bandwidth networks. However, managing the life cycle of these datasets from acquisition and analysis to publication and archiving often necessitates interdisciplinary collaborations with geographically distributed teams of experts. A common requirement for these interdisciplinary teams is access to integrated computational platforms that are flexible, scalable, and agile. These platforms must provide access to appropriate hardware and software that support diverse data types, computational scalability needs, and the usage patterns of diverse research communities. This includes access to shared data storage that can reliably transfer large sets of data, ability to annotate and search these data with descriptive metadata, connections to appropriate computational hardware (e.g., high-memory computers, virtual machines) for analysis, and identity management systems to securely share data with collaborators. The iPlant Collaborative, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded cyberinfrastructure (CI) project launched in 2008, is meeting the needs associated with managing data-driven research, collaborations, and discoveries. While originally targeted toward the plant science research community, iPlant has the expanded mandate to provide CI support across the life sciences. Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Merchant et al.
PY - 2016/1/11
Y1 - 2016/1/11
N2 - The iPlant Collaborative provides life science research communities access to comprehensive, scalable, and cohesive computational infrastructure for data management; identity management; collaboration tools; and cloud, high-performance, high-throughput computing. iPlant provides training, learning material, and best practice resources to help all researchers make the best use of their data, expand their computational skill set, and effectively manage their data and computation when working as distributed teams. iPlant’s platform permits researchers to easily deposit and share their data and deploy new computational tools and analysis workflows, allowing the broader community to easily use and reuse those data and computational analyses.
AB - The iPlant Collaborative provides life science research communities access to comprehensive, scalable, and cohesive computational infrastructure for data management; identity management; collaboration tools; and cloud, high-performance, high-throughput computing. iPlant provides training, learning material, and best practice resources to help all researchers make the best use of their data, expand their computational skill set, and effectively manage their data and computation when working as distributed teams. iPlant’s platform permits researchers to easily deposit and share their data and deploy new computational tools and analysis workflows, allowing the broader community to easily use and reuse those data and computational analyses.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002342
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002342
M3 - Article
C2 - 26752627
SN - 1544-9173
VL - 14
JO - PLoS biology
JF - PLoS biology
IS - 1
M1 - e1002342
ER -