title: Overcoming the Law of the Hidden in Cyberinfrastructures.
abstract: Cyberinfrastructure projects (CIPs) are complex, integrated systems that require interaction and organization amongst user, developer, hardware, technical infrastructure, and funding resources. Nevertheless, CIP usability, functionality, and growth do not scale with the sum of these resources. Instead, growth and efficient usage of CIPs require access to 'hidden' resources. These include technical resources within CIPs as well as social and functional interactions among stakeholders. We identify approaches to overcome resource limitations following the conceptual basis of Liebig's Law of the Minimum. In so doing, we recommend practical steps towards efficient and scaleable resource use, taking the iPlant/CyVerse CIP as an example.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, GA 30602, USA; Previous address: School of Biology and School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. Electronic address: bucksch@uga.edu.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bucksch
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors.forename: Abhiram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Computing Facility, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; The iPlant Collaborative, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Nirav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. Electronic address: jsweitz@gatech.edu.
authors.forename: Joshua S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Weitz
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010944:Plants; D012984:Software
keywords: computational plant science; cyberinfrastructure; plant biology; plant phenotyping