Data Sets, Webservices and Visualization Apps from the Bio-Analytic Resource for use in the AIP and other Cyberinfrastructure Assets

As part of a recently-funded Genome Canada grant, the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology (BAR) is preparing to provide seven modules to the Arabidopsis Information Portal: two modules for gene expression (transcript abundance and transcript structure) based on publish microarray and RNA-seq data sets will be made available, via redesigned eFP Browser code and a novel fast RNA-seq viewer; a module covering 90,000 conserved sequences in the Brassicaceae from Mathieu Blanchette and collaborators via the VEGI Project in a novel sequence conservation viewer (GeneSlider); a module for a database of almost 100k protein-protein interactions plus a viewer app; a module for viewing protein structures for ca. 500 experimentally-determined protein structures and predicted structures covering ~70% of the Arabidopsis proteome; an Expressolog/Synteny module; and a zoomable user interface app to navigate with ease between these and other levels of biological organization being brought together by the Arabidopsis Information Portal (AIP). Progress on these and other potential modules will be discussed.