iPlant Collaborative
The iPlant Collaborative (iPC) is a distributed, cyberinfrastructure-centered, international community of plant and computing researchers enabling new conceptual advances through computational thinking, and addressing an evolving array of the most compelling grand challenges in the plant sciences and associated, cutting-edge research challenges in the computing sciences. Initially providing services through a small, committed, centralized core (at Arizona and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab), the Collaborative will gradually become distributed throughout the community. The community, defined as plant and computing researchers, working together, will determine priorities and allocation of resources via the community's Board of Directors (see "About iPC" tab for details). By the end of 2008, the Board of Directors will prioritize several grand challenges, through a process involving community-proposed, grand-challenge workshops and self-forming, grand-challenge teams that will propose problems that iPlant Collaborative resources should be directed towards.

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