Integration of CoGe's Data Services in iPlant

As the number and capabilities of computational research platforms expands, there is a growing need for interoperability.  To accomplish research goals, researchers increasingly rely on seamless transfers of data, metadata, and experimental results between platforms.  Without this, analyses involving multiple platforms are often prohibitive due to the time and effort spent moving and formatting data to meet needs not directly related to the research focus.  The Comparative Genomics platform, CoGe, has coordinated with the iPlant Collaborative to enable researchers to search CoGe's catalog of nearly 23,000 public genome sequences from over 17,000 species, and import them directly into the iPlant Discovery Environment.  From the Discovery Environment, researchers can harness powerful compute resources and choose from among hundreds of  bioinformatics Apps.  This allows users to seamlessly leverage the strengths of both CoGe and iPlant for genome analyses.  The ongoing collaboration between CoGe and iPlant exemplifies the value added when interoperability is leveraged to create an ecosystem of resources that enable and empower researchers, accelerating discovery.