A Virtual Plant Information Network (VPIN)

国家基因组资源中心获得了开发虚拟植物信息网络(VPIN)的赠款。VPIN将基于BioMOBY等中间件平台，通过为综合生物学和比较生物学提供强大的生物信息学能力，大大增强植物生物学研究的能力。它将结合来自TAIR(www.arabidopsis.org)、DargonDB(antirrhinum.net)、LIS(www.Compallative-Legumes.org)、Gramene(www.gram ene.org)、TIGR基因组注释(www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/mta1)和Medicago基因指数(www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/tgi/T_index.cgi?species=medicago)的数据和分析工具，以及CGIAR通过IRIS(http://www.iris.irri.org/)和iwis(www.cimmyt.org/research/wheat/iwisfol/IWISFOL.htm).)进行的通用挑战计划具体地说，该项目将(1)将语义Moby和Moby服务合并为一个统一的生物学语义Web服务平台；(2)开发协议，使植物信息资源能够在语义Web服务平台上注册，并建立一个可操作的虚拟植物信息网络；(3)开发接口，允许生物学家使用基于语义的概念在基于Web的植物资源中发现数据和调用服务。VPIN将扩展以前在NSF资助下开发的网络技术，并使生物学家能够更好地通过单一入口点访问可用的信息资源。处于不同教育阶段的学生将参与这一系统的设计和开发。VPIN将为从植物育种者到计算生物学家的广泛生物学家提供服务。

The National Center for Genome Resources is awarded a grant to develop a Virtual Plant Information Network (VPIN). VPIN will be based on such middleware platforms such as BioMOBY and will significantly empower plant biology research by providing powerful bioinformatics capabilities for integrative and comparative biology. It will combine the data and analysis tools from TAIR (www.arabidopsis.org), DargonDB (antirrhinum.net), LIS (www.comparative-legumes.org), Gramene (www.gramene.org), TIGR's Genome Annotation (www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/mta1) and Medicago Gene Indices (www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/tgi/T_index.cgi?species=medicago) and the CGIAR's Generartion Challenge Prgram via IRIS (http://www.iris.irri.org/) and IWIS (www.cimmyt.org/research/wheat/iwisfol/IWISFOL.htm). Specifically this project will (1) merge Semantic MOBY and MOBY Services into a single unified Semantic Web Services platform for biology; (2) develop protocols that enable registration of plant information resources with the Semantic Web Services platform and establish an operational Virtual Plant Information Network; and (3) develop interfaces that will allow biologists to discover data and invoke services across web-based plant resources using semantically based concepts. VPIN will extend web technology developed previously under NSF funding and enable better access to available information resources by biologists with a single point of entry. Students at various stages of their education will be involved in the design and development of this system. The VPIN will serve a broad range of biologists from plant breeders to computational biologists.