Sustaining: A Bridge to Sustainability for the CIPRES Science Gateway

可持续发展：CIPRES 科学网关可持续发展的桥梁

• 批准号: 2211631
• 负责人: Mark Miller
• 金额: $ 111.27万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustaining; Bridge; Sustainability; CIPRES; Science

This award to the University of California - San Diego will sustain the online presence of the Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES) Science Gateway, an internet site that allows scientists from around the world to make discoveries more easily through access to community software for analyzing complex phylogenetic questions run on large NSF-funded compute clusters. Currently at least 12,000 scientists run tens of thousands of jobs each year using the CIPRES Gateway; these jobs are an essential part of making new scientific discoveries about the natural world and the origin of life on Earth. In the past year at least 1,800 scientific studies were published using results made possible by CIPRES. All of these studies would have been more difficult or even impossible without the access to resources that CIPRES provides. CIPRES makes it possible for researchers who do not have access to large local/campus computing resources to ask large questions and conduct difficult investigations. It also makes it possible for more than 100 instructors each year to train the next generation of phylogenetics researchers, using the finest tools available in the world. The impact of CIPRES on basic biological research is significant. Assuming current trends continue, CIPRES will support 6,000+ studies during the award period. The access provided by CIPRES allowed scientists to quickly investigate the origin and distribution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, emphasizing the value of a resource like CIPRES when scientists need to respond rapidly to an unforeseen, time-sensitive research problem.During this award, the researchers will focus on changing the CIPRES Science Gateway from an NSF-funded resource to a user-funded resource. The goal of the project is to develop tools and strategies that make it possible to sustain the CIPRES Science Gateway indefinitely via revenues generated from the project’s users and sponsors. At present thousands of users access and run jobs at CIPRES each year as part of their scientific investigations into the evolution of life on Earth. Given that the resource has enduring value to its community, the researchers will develop revenue streams that will allow maintenance and preservation of the resource in perpetuity without additional funding from NSF or other federal agencies. The proposed activities include software maintenance and systems administration tasks that preserve the operational integrity of job submissions, results storage, and results retrieval via a web-based graphical user interface that supports submissions by individual users, and via a RESTful application programming interface that supports submissions by other science gateways and desktop applications that require phylogenetic analyses. Additional activities will include routine updating, benchmarking, and release of current and new community codes; usage monitoring to ensure efficient and prudent use of NSF resources by the user community; user support; adjustments and bug fixes based on feedback from users; and reporting progress.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项授予加州-圣地亚哥大学将维持系统发育研究网络基础设施（CIPRES）科学网关的在线存在，该网站允许来自世界各地的科学家通过访问社区软件更容易地进行发现，用于分析在大型NSF资助的计算集群上运行的复杂系统发育问题。目前，每年至少有12，000名科学家使用CIPRES网关进行数万项工作;这些工作是对自然世界和地球生命起源进行新的科学发现的重要组成部分。在过去的一年里，至少有1,800项科学研究使用CIPRES的结果发表。如果没有CIPRES提供的资源，所有这些研究都将更加困难，甚至不可能。CIPRES使无法访问大型本地/校园计算资源的研究人员能够提出大型问题并进行困难的调查。它还使每年有100多名教师使用世界上最好的工具培训下一代遗传学研究人员成为可能。CIPRES对基础生物学研究的影响是重大的。假设目前的趋势继续下去，CIPRES将在奖励期间支持6,000多项研究。CIPRES提供的访问使科学家能够快速调查SARS-CoV-2病毒的起源和分布，强调了当科学家需要对不可预见的、时间敏感的研究问题做出快速反应时，像CIPRES这样的资源的价值。在此奖项期间，研究人员将专注于将CIPRES科学网关从NSF资助的资源转变为用户资助的资源。该项目的目标是开发工具和战略，使CIPRES科学网关能够通过项目用户和赞助商产生的收入无限期地维持下去。目前，每年有数千名用户访问和运行CIPRES的工作，作为他们对地球生命进化的科学调查的一部分。考虑到该资源对其社区具有持久的价值，研究人员将开发收入来源，使该资源能够永久维护和保护，而无需NSF或其他联邦机构提供额外资金。拟议的活动包括软件维护和系统管理任务，这些任务通过支持个人用户提交的基于Web的图形用户界面和支持其他科学网关和需要系统发育分析的桌面应用程序提交的RESTful应用程序编程接口，维护作业提交、结果存储和结果检索的操作完整性。其他活动将包括常规更新，基准测试和发布当前和新的社区代码;使用监控，以确保用户社区有效和谨慎地使用NSF资源;用户支持;根据用户反馈进行调整和错误修复;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。