Overview of the CyVerse

With its ‘roots’ in the plant community, iPlant has become CyVerse (Cyber Universe) a name that reflects our mission to design, develop, and deploy a national cyberinfrastructure to enable research across the life sciences, and to train scientists in its use. CyVerse provides users free access to cyberinfrastructure (data storage/sharing, software, computing, and people) that enables researchers to manage the ‘life-cycle’ of their data and perform sophisticated data analyses using national HPC resources.

CyVerse is currently a community of more than 40,000 users at every level of bioinformatics experience (from little-to-no bioinformatics training to power users). For genomics, CyVerse supports more than a dozen core workflows (e.g. Genome/Transcriptome assembly, RNA-Seq, variant calling, Methylation analysis, etc.). CyVerse platforms support communities and workflows across the life sciences in areas such as astronomy, climatology, geosciences, and precision agriculture. Community input shapes the tools we provide and the research communities that we enable.

Users within CyVerse can customize their experience by bringing their own tools and pipelines (via Docker, virtual machines, or deployment via our APIs). CyVerse supports the ‘life-cycle’ of data with tools for easy data upload, sharing, and even publication directly to NCBI Short Read Archive. CyVerse tutorials, training, and support help users get started analyzing and managing their data.

This talk will feature previews of new and upcoming functionalities as well as examples of how users have leveraged CyVerse as a part of their research and education. We will also discuss the vision for CyVerse and cyberinfrastructure over the next decade.