Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference

January 10 - 14, 2015

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Plant Science at the JGI and KBase

The Department of Energy currently funds both a large scale user facility for plant genomics at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and a large scale computational resource for comparative functional genomics and systems biology of microbes, plants and their communities called the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). The core mission of both of these endeavors is to help scientists carry out experiments and analyses in areas such as improving biofuel development, understanding plant model systems, advancing plant comparative science and investigating global carbon cycling. In this workshop, we will present current and ongoing developments from both the Plant Program at JGI and KBase toward integrative biology. We will also hear from researchers who are applying genomic sequence information from JGI to elucidate functions of plant systems and from users who are working to apply KBase computational infrastructure to plant biological inquiries. Finally, we will describe how to apply for a project with the JGI Community Science Program and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant genomics research.