iPlant Collaborative Launched

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, USA and four research universities led by the University of Arizona, received a US$50 million grant from the National Science Foundation to define and address “grand challenge questions” in plant biology that have global implications.

The new initiative called iPlant Collaborative, aims to “develop an all-encompassing computer- and internet-based infrastructure that will transform the way plant science is done, and that will be accessible, at different levels, by scientists across the disciplines and across the planet,” said Lincoln Stein, Ph.D., CSHL professor and a co-principal investigator of the Collaborative. The initiative seeks to address concerns of a functional and multi-disciplinary community of experts that will include those in computer science, math and other fields.

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