Plant and Animal Genome XXI Conference

January 11 - 16, 2013

Intl Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium

This workshop will present the International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium's efforts to enable a stable data and resources repository for Arabidopsis bioinformatics that serves the global plant research community. Included are (1) outcomes of the recent Design Workshop whose primary goal was to assemble plant biologists and computational experts to productively tackle the challenge of building the Arabidopsis Informatics Portal in a sustainable, internationally-driven manner, (2) a community update on TAIR and its transition as the current primary data repository, (3) future funding needs and current opportunities to support all aspects of the Consortium, from the core portal to future and existing modules/projects that can link to the core portal (4) and what this all means to the community for data and resource continuity in support of basic research in Arabidopsis and other plants.