Introducing CyVerse

The iPlant Collaborative was launched in 2008 with goal of designing, developing and employing the premiere U.S. cyberinfrastructure to support data driven inquiry.  Initially charged with supporting the plant sciences community, with refunding of our supporting NSF grant in 2013 our mission expanded to encompass all areas of the life sciences.  With tens of thousands of users working across the life sciences, we are renaming iPlant to CyVerse to reflect and acknowledge our expanded mission and user community.  This talk will discuss the expanded vision of CyVerse, and also the central role that plant scientists will continue to play as part of our core mission to advance science through data driven discovery.