title: Design, implementation and maintenance of a model organism database for Arabidopsis thaliana.
abstract: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a web-based community database for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. It provides an integrated view of genes, sequences, proteins, germplasms, clones, metabolic pathways, gene expression, ecotypes, polymorphisms, publications, maps and community information. TAIR is developed and maintained by collaboration between software developers and biologists. Biologists provide specification and use cases for the system, acquire, analyse and curate data, interact with users and test the software. Software developers design, implement and test the database and software. In this review, we briefly describe how TAIR was built and is being maintained.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive, East Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.
authors.forename: Danforth
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weems
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garcia-Hernandez
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huala
authors.forename: Seung Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Rhee