Module Development for Araport

The Arabidopsis Information Portal (www.Araport.org) is an integrated resource for Arabidopsis genomics data, web-based genome browsing, and data mining. Araport is also a community-extensible platform for growth. Community labs are invited to contribute modules devoted to specific experimental data types. Araport’s community modules provide databases, computations, and visualizations. These are exposed as user-friendly web applications (“Science Apps”) or programmer-friendly web services or both. Araport modules are custom branded, auto-documented, and portable to other web sites. Module deployment is automated and developer-driven. Provenance tracking, usage reporting, data indexing and data integration will be automated soon. We will explain the process of developing a module and deploying it to Araport.