title: The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences.
abstract: The iPlant Collaborative provides life science research communities access to comprehensive, scalable, and cohesive computational infrastructure for data management; identity management; collaboration tools; and cloud, high-performance, high-throughput computing. iPlant provides training, learning material, and best practice resources to help all researchers make the best use of their data, expand their computational skill set, and effectively manage their data and computation when working as distributed teams. iPlant's platform permits researchers to easily deposit and share their data and deploy new computational tools and analysis workflows, allowing the broader community to easily use and reuse those data and computational analyses.
authors.affiliation: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
authors.forename: Nirav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.affiliation: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.affiliation: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goff
authors.affiliation: Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaughn
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Doreen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ware
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Micklos
authors.affiliation: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
authors.forename: Parker
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Antin
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software