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Published online 24 June 2009 | Nature 459, 1047-1049 (2009) | doi:10.1038/4591047a
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Cyberinfrastructure: Feed me data
The iPlant programme was designed to give plant scientists a new information infrastructure. But first they had to decide what they wanted, finds Heidi Ledford.
In April 2008, Richard Jorgensen found himself in front of a group of expectant researchers gathered in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. The pressure was on: Jorgensen had recently been placed in charge of iPlant, a US$50-million, five-year programme funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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