SC Conference - Activity Details
iPlant Collaborative: Computational Scaling Challenges in Plant Biology
Primary Session Leader:
Dan Stanzione
(Texas Advanced Computing Center)
Secondary Session Leaders:
| Martha Narro (University of Arizona) |
| Steve Goff (University of Arizona) |
| Wednesday, 05:30PM - 07:00PM |
| Room B117 |
The Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative (PSCIC) program
is intended to create a new type of organization: a
cyberinfrastructure collaborative for the plant sciences - that
would enable new conceptual advances through integrative, computational
thinking. To achieve this goal, we have developed the iPlant Collaborative
(iPC). The iPC will utilize new cyberinfrastructure solutions to address an evolving array of grand challenges in the plant sciences. In the past year, iPlant has undertaken two new community-driven grand challenges: The iPlant Tree of Life, an attempt to build the tree of all green plant species on Earth, and the iPlant Genotype-Phenotype project, a comprehensive attempt to understand the mapping between Genetic information and expressed characteristics.
This session will provide a forum for members of the HPC community
to learn more about the iPC, and how to become involved. We will particularly focus on the barriers to computational scalability in plant biology.
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