COMMUNITY PAGE The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences

The iPlant Collaborative provides life science research communities access to comprehen-sive, scalable, and cohesive computational infrastructure for data management; identity management; collaboration tools; and cloud, high-performance, high-throughput comput-ing. 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 compu-tational tools and analysis workflows, allowing the broader community to easily use and reuse those data and computational analyses. Over the last decade, the discipline of life sciences has benefited tremendously from new, mas-sively parallel, and highly quantitative technologies. These technologies have facilitated rapid data acquisition at an increasingly higher resolution and throughput across all forms of modal-ities, from super-resolution microscopy to DNA sequencing technologies. Transformational advances in information technology have complemented this phenomenal growth in dat