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. 2016 Jan 11;14(1):e1002342.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002342. eCollection 2016 Jan.

The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences

Nirav Merchant  1 , Eric Lyons  1 , Stephen Goff  1 , Matthew Vaughn  2 , Doreen Ware  3 , David Micklos  3 , Parker Antin  1
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The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences

Nirav Merchant et al. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

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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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. iPlant CI architecture and technology components.
Image credit: Monica Lent.
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Fig 2. iPlant Data Store: Fabric that connects multiple CI components.
Image Credit: Monica Lent.
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Fig 3. iPlant Discovery Environment, showing the Data, App, and Analyses windows.
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