NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The J. Craig Venter Institute today said that it has received $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation to fund the first phase of a planned five-year project to develop the Arabidopsis Information Portal.
The project is being led by JCVI's Christopher Town in collaboration with scientists from the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the University of Cambridge.
The AIP will host all of the data currently housed in the Arabidopsis Information Resource, funding for which expired last month. The information portal also will provide access to integration of diverse data types, including expression data, protein interaction data, and data from the 1001 Genomes Project, which is an online catalogue of Arabidopsis genetic variation.
The AIP will have a modular design, enabling community members worldwide to develop and plug in both data and analysis modules. This will allow costs to be distributed across multiple countries and funding agencies, said JCVI.
The funding announced today covers the first year of a two-year award. The project is expected to be developed over five years.