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Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative: Advancing Computational Solutions for Plant Biology

The Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative (PSCIC) aims to develop a unified center for computational thinking in biology, focusing on grand challenge questions in plant science. By catalyzing new synthesis through interdisciplinary collaborations, the PSCIC will enable creative solutions and advance the integration of diverse and large-scale genomic data. The collaborative will also prepare the next generation of scientists and lead in outreach efforts to maximize the benefit for researchers at universities, undergraduate institutions, and community colleges.

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Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative: Advancing Computational Solutions for Plant Biology

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  1. Parag Chitnis Chris Greer Susan Lolle Sam Scheiner Jane Silverthorne Bill Zamer Manfred Zorn PSCIC Working Group:

  2. Plant Science Computational and Computer Sciences and Engineering Cyberinfrastructure Converging forces for progress:

  3. Cyberinfrastructure … … is the organized aggregate of technologies that enable us to access and integrate today’s information technology resources—data and storage, computation, communication, visualization, networking, scientific instruments, expertise—to facilitate science and engineering goals. - Fran Berman, Director, SDSC

  4. Plant ScienceCyberinfrastructureCollaborative PSCIC NSF06-594 Anticipated funding amount: 1 Award Up to $50M over 5 years

  5. NPGI has produced, and will continue to produce, enormous amounts of plant genome data, which need to be made accessible to a broad community of scientists in a useable form …. Significant and broad efforts should be directed toward programs that enable individuals or groups to access, analyze and compare data. National Plant Genome Initiative NPGI Progress Report, 2003-2008

  6. Researchers at universities, undergraduate institutions, and community colleges have and will continue to benefit from the information, tools, and other resources generated through 2010. To maximize the benefit, developing the cyber infrastructure for the dispersed network of 2010 resources … is imperative. Mid-course Assessment of the Arabidopsis 2010 Project:

  7. There is a strong need to create a plant cyberinfrastructure center to promote the integration of diverse and large-scale genomics and other data to address a few fundamental problems in plant biology using multi-disciplinary approaches. Recommendations: Report of the NSF Workshop for a Plant Cyberinfrastructure Center; October 17-18, 2005

  8. Synthesis of Ideas “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” -- George Bernard Shaw

  9. New types of scientific organizations enabled by cyberinfrastructure that “serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionize … Imagine …. … what they can do, how they do it, and who participates.” Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the NSF Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure

  10. Biology Computer/ Information Science Cyber- Infra- structure Imagine …. A new type of organization that is unified, like Borromean rings, by its interlocking elements of … … biology, computer and information sciences, and cyberinfrastructure

  11. Imagine …. A Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative A center for computational thinking in biology • Focus on grand challenge questions in plant science • Catalyzing new synthesis through interactions between biologists, computer and information scientists, and other disciplines

  12. Interorganizational – Distributed Source: Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council

  13. Transorganizational - Hybrid Source: Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council

  14. Driven by Plant Science Challenges Interdisciplinary Innovative Community-driven Accountable Diverse Effectively managed Characteristics of the Collaborative:

  15. Catalyze progress through computational and cyberinfrastructure solutions Enable creative synthesis and integration Prepare the next generation Enable discovery through information access Lead in outreach Responsibilities of the Collaborative:

  16. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) www.nceas.ucsb.edu National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) www.nescent.org Examples of Synthesis Activities:

  17. Anticipated funding amount: 1 Award Up to $50M over 5 years Eligible Organizations: US academic institutions and non-profit research organizations Program Solicitation:

  18. Preproposal due date: November 30, 2006 Full proposal target date April 16, 2007 Anticipated site visits: June, 2007 Review Timeline:

  19. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” --Albert Einstein

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