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. 2016 Jan 11;14(1):e1002342. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002342

Table 1. Subset of exemplar community-initiated projects and activities that utilize various components of iPlant CI.

Application Domain User Community iPlant CI components utilized
Data sharing and analysis platform to support regional and international collaborations Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP): https://www.integratedbreeding.net Auth, Data Store, Discovery Environment, Atmosphere
Genomes to Fields Initiative: http://www.genomes2fields.org/
Large-scale image data management 120+ Herbariums, part of NEVP (New England Vasculature Plant) and SERNEC (Southeast Region Network of expertise and collections) consortium: http://nevp.org/participants, http://sernec.appstate.edu/ Auth, Data Store, Bisque
High-throughput Image based phenotyping 15 laboratories in the United States and Mexico collaboratively working with robotic data acquisition systems and cloud-based analysis using customized virtual machines (appliances) Auth, Data Store, Atmosphere
High-throughput Next Generation Sequencing analysis pipelines Workflows with 100+ TBs of data, Millions of CPU hours Auth, Data Store, Discovery Environment, Atmosphere, Pegasus [3], Science API
iAnimal variant calling workflows
Soybean Knowledgebase (SoyKB): http://soykb.org/
Community portals for data dissemination Integrated large-scale data sets and analysis Auth, Data Store, Discovery Environment
iMicrobe (includes legacy CAMERA project data): http://imicrobe.us
One thousand plants transcriptome: http://onekp.com
Learning Material, training opportunities Undergraduate course work: http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/blog/news/class-cloud DNA subway, Atmosphere, Discovery Environment, Science API
Graduate Bioinformatics courses: http://brendelgroup.org/teaching/2014/CGSL14Sschedule.php
Community organized workshops and data clinics: http://www.idsnews.com/article/2015/08/iu-biology-hosts-clinic
Software and Data Carpentry with iPlant: http://dib-training.readthedocs.org/en/pub/2015-09-iplant.html
CISE (Computer Information Science and Engineering) engagement Jet Stream: Self-provisioned cloud environment: http://jetstream-cloud.org/ Atmosphere, Data Store, Science API
Syndicate: Content Delivery Network (CDN) for science data: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541318
Agave: API driven platform for reproducible science: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450459