IPlant Collaborative | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-31

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPlant_Collaborative


00:01:20 1 History
00:05:10 1.1 Institutions
00:06:37 2 Services
00:07:05 2.1 The Discovery Environment
00:07:47 2.2 iPlant Foundational APIs
00:08:15 2.3 Atmosphere
00:08:48 2.4 iPlant Semantic Web
00:09:26 2.5 Taxonomic Name Resolution Service
00:10:00 2.6 My-Plant
00:10:40 2.7 DNA Subway



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SUMMARY
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The iPlant Collaborative is a virtual organization created by a cooperative agreement funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to create cyberinfrastructure for the plant sciences (botany). The NSF compared cyberinfrastructure to physical infrastructure, "... the distributed computer, information and communication technologies combined with the personnel and integrating components that provide a long-term platform to empower the modern scientific research endeavor".  In September 2013 it was announced that the National Science Foundation had renewed iPlant's funding for a second 5-year term with an expansion of scope to all non-human life science research.The project develops computing systems and software that combine computing resources, like those of TeraGrid, and bioinformatics and computational biology software. Its goal is easier collaboration among researchers with improved data access and processing efficiency. Primarily centered in the United States, it collaborates internationally.