iPlant Collaborative

Cyberinfrastructure Workshop

 The iPlant Collaborative held a Cyberinfrastructure Workshop at Biosphere 2, near Oracle, AZ: http://www.b2science.org/b2institutefacilities.html. The workshop ran from the evening of Wednesday, January 7th until the afternoon of Friday, January 9th. For more information on the workshop please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The complete schedule of events can be found HERE.

Grand Challenge Workshops

The Collaborative's external Board of Directors met July 8 and 9, 2008, to review 9 Grand Challenge Workshop proposals. Four workshops were recommended to be held during the autumn of 2008. One or two additional workshops could potentially be held in early 2009 (or 2008, if feasible). Below are links to one page summaries of the four prioritized workshops. Also, the Board recommended that  iPlant's core project team begin work on 'preprojects' with the last two groups listed below, in order to give the team experience in working with "proto" Grand Challenge Teams and to initiate development of CI components that will be broadly useful. Workshops will still be held and full proposals will be required of these two groups before the Board commits to support of a full GC project.

All workshops were held in the conference facilities of the Biosphere 2, near Oracle, AZ: http://www.b2science.org/b2institutefacilities.html. (Future workshops may also be held at Cold Spring Harbor Lab's Banbury Conference Center on Long Island in NY.)