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Overview
• iPlant Collaborative• Social networking & Science• My-Plant• Usage Data• The Future
November 13, 2010
The iPlant Collaborative
• A $50M NSF effort to build CyberInfrastructure for “Grand Challenges” in the Plant Science Community, focused on food production, fuel production, and drug discovery.
• Current development focus on phylogenetics (understanding evolutionary relationships), and mapping genomic data to expressed characteristics
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Why iPlant at TACC?• iPlant is an examplar project for TACC moving beyond
“simply systems”.– A problem of tremendous import on science and society.
– Computing and data at the center of solutions
– Deep partnerships with domain experts needed for solutions
• Leverages many TACC core competencies:Scalable Algorithms Large Data
Computing Portals/Advanced Interfaces
Visualization Data Integration
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My-Plant: A Social Network
• Fills some of the spaces in between traditional HPC portals
• Connects individuals– Researchers, students, educators
• Adds additional value to data– Discussions– Related data– Context
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• The usual suspects in social networking features
– Image gallery
– File sharing
– Group/private messaging
– Forums
– Group posts
– “Colleagues”
– User profiles
– Searchable content
Social Networking for the Plant Sciences
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My-Plant: Clades
• Monophyletic groups of organisms
• The “groups” inMy-Plant
• Self-managed• Aggregation points
for content
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My-Plant: Clades
• Why organize in this way?– Traditional group structure of a social network is
flat– Hierarchical social network is more than just
interest groups
• More added value– Not only are users connected by common clades,
but also by related clades– Content, too, gets added value from this
relationship
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iPlant Integration
• Other iPlant project integration– Large Tree Viewer
• Contextual interlinking
– Discovery Environment (DE)• Sharing
– BIEN name resolution
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User-Directed
• Millions of plant clades– Can’t include them all
• Users suggest clades to add to the network– Reviewed for scientific relevance, actual interest– Clades are managed by users
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Implementation Overview
• Drupal CMS• Developing on the Drupal platform
– Modules
• Authentication
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Drupal CMS
• CMS Platform• Growing number of scientific sites using
Drupal and developing Drupal modules– LifeDesks.org– iPlant
• Rapid, extensible, community support
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Drupal Modules• Clade module
– Main module driving My-Plant– Manages Drupal nodes as “Clades”– Workflows for adding and managing content
• Javascript InfoVis Toolkit (JIT) module– Visualization toolkit– Highlight the hierarchical network in My-Plant– Can be extended to include other viz
• user/content relationships• Clade activity
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Project History
• Project began late February 2010• Development started March 15• “Friendly user” release July 6• Official launch July 28
– Weekend of ASPB, BSA conferences
• 216 users, 57 clades
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The Future of My-Plant
• Integration with iPlant Services• Integration with other social
networks/services– Twitter, Facebook
• Open source release of Drupal Modules• Social networking research
– Sudha Ram, University of Arizona
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Acknowledgements• PIs
– Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis, Brent Mishler, Richard Olmstead, Richard McCourt, Martin Wojciechowski
• Graduate students– Lucas Majure, Adam Payton, Susan Tremblay,
Thomas Madsen
• iPlant– Nirav Merchant
• TACC– Michael Gonzales, Stephen Mock, Praveen Nuthulapati
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Acknowledgements
• TACC, University of Texas, Austin• iPlant Collaborative• NSF (#EF-0735191)• University of Florida• University of California, Berkeley• Arizona State University• University of Arizona• University of Washington• Academy of Natural Sciences
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