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PSCIC Working Group:
• Parag Chitnis
• Chris Greer
• Susan Lolle
• Sam Scheiner
• Jane Silverthorne
• Bill Zamer
• Manfred Zorn
Converging forces for progress:
• Plant Science
• Computational and Computer Sciences and Engineering
• Cyberinfrastructure
… is the organized aggregate of technologies that enable us to
access and integrate today’s information technology resources
—data and storage, computation, communication,
visualization, networking, scientific instruments, expertise—to
facilitate science and engineering goals.
- Fran Berman, Director, SDSC
Cyberinfrastructure …
Plant ScienceCyberinfrastructure
Collaborative
PSCICNSF06-594
Anticipated funding amount:1 AwardUp to $50M over 5 years
National Plant Genome Initiative
NPGI has produced, and will continue to produce, enormous amounts of plant genome data, which need to be made accessible to a broad community of scientists in a useable form …. Significant and broad efforts should be directed toward programs that enable individuals or groups to access, analyze and compare data.
NPGI Progress Report, 2003-2008
Mid-course Assessment of the Arabidopsis 2010 Project:
Researchers at universities, undergraduate institutions,
and community colleges have and will continue to benefit
from the information, tools, and other resources
generated through 2010. To maximize the benefit,
developing the cyber infrastructure for the dispersed
network of 2010 resources … is imperative.
Recommendations:
1. There is a strong need to create a plant cyberinfrastructure center to promote the integration of diverse and large-scale genomics and other data to address a few fundamental problems in plant biology using multi-disciplinary approaches.
Report of the NSF Workshop for a Plant Cyberinfrastructure Center; October 17-18, 2005
Synthesis of Ideas
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will
still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
Imagine ….New types of scientific
organizations enabled by cyberinfrastructure that “serve individuals, teams and organizations in ways that revolutionize …
… what they can do, how they do it, and who participates.”
Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the NSF Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
Biology Computer/Information
Science
Cyber-Infra-structure
Imagine ….
A new type of organization that is unified, like Borromean rings, by its interlocking elements of …
… biology, computer and information sciences, andcyberinfrastructure
Imagine ….
A center for computational thinking in biology
•Focus on grand challenge questions in plant science
•Catalyzing new synthesis through interactions between biologists, computer and information scientists, and other disciplines
A Plant Science
Cyberinfrastructure
Collaborative
Interorganizational – Distributed
Source: Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council
Transorganizational - Hybrid
Source: Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council
Characteristics of the Collaborative:
• Driven by Plant Science Challenges
• Interdisciplinary
• Innovative
• Community-driven
• Accountable
• Diverse
• Effectively managed
Responsibilities of the Collaborative:
• Catalyze progress through computational and cyberinfrastructure solutions
• Enable creative synthesis and integration
• Prepare the next generation
• Enable discovery through information access
• Lead in outreach
Examples of Synthesis Activities:
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
www.nceas.ucsb.edu
• National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
www.nescent.org
Program Solicitation:
• Anticipated funding amount:
1 Award
Up to $50M over 5 years
• Eligible Organizations:
US academic institutions and non-profit research
organizations
Review Timeline:
• Preproposal due date:
November 30, 2006
• Full proposal target date
April 16, 2007
• Anticipated site visits:
June, 2007
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know
and understand, while imagination embraces
the entire world, and all there ever will be to
know and understand.”
--Albert Einstein