Plant and Animal Genome XXII Conference

January 10 - 15, 2014

2169

Arabidopsis Information Portal & Intl Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium

This workshop, co-developed by the Arabidopsis Information Portal (AIP) and the International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium (IAIC) will present both groups' efforts to develop a stable data and resources repository for Arabidopsis bioinformatics that serves the global plant research community. Included are presentations by plant biologists and computational experts on how the Arabidopsis Informatics Portal will be built in a sustainable, internationally-driven manner, and how it will be connected with a broad array of community-generated modules and their associated data. The IAIC was initiated following two community-organized workshops held in 2010 to address increasing bioinformatics needs for Arabidopsis data and in response to funding concerns for the community’s primary database, TAIR. The goal of this community-led international initiative is to manage the increasing amounts and types of data and to leverage growing resources, knowledge, and collaborations. The IAIC will consist of a distributed system of data, tools and resources that would be funded by a variety of sources. The IAIC’s first major task was to facilitate the establishment of the Arabidopsis Information Portal. The AIP is the underlying infrastructure of the IAIC and will interact with and link to resources across the globe; once established and accessible by the community, additional modules can be linked to the AIP to allow data integration.