TY - JOUR
T1 - Overcoming the Law of the Hidden in Cyberinfrastructures
AU - Bucksch, Alexander
AU - Das, Abhiram
AU - Schneider, Hannah
AU - Merchant, Nirav
AU - Weitz, Joshua S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - Cyberinfrastructure projects (CIPs) are complex, integrated systems that require interaction and organization amongst user, developer, hardware, technical infrastructure, and funding resources. Nevertheless, CIP usability, functionality, and growth do not scale with the sum of these resources. Instead, growth and efficient usage of CIPs require access to ‘hidden’ resources. These include technical resources within CIPs as well as social and functional interactions among stakeholders. We identify approaches to overcome resource limitations following the conceptual basis of Liebig's Law of the Minimum. In so doing, we recommend practical steps towards efficient and scaleable resource use, taking the iPlant/CyVerse CIP as an example.
AB - Cyberinfrastructure projects (CIPs) are complex, integrated systems that require interaction and organization amongst user, developer, hardware, technical infrastructure, and funding resources. Nevertheless, CIP usability, functionality, and growth do not scale with the sum of these resources. Instead, growth and efficient usage of CIPs require access to ‘hidden’ resources. These include technical resources within CIPs as well as social and functional interactions among stakeholders. We identify approaches to overcome resource limitations following the conceptual basis of Liebig's Law of the Minimum. In so doing, we recommend practical steps towards efficient and scaleable resource use, taking the iPlant/CyVerse CIP as an example.
KW - computational plant science
KW - cyberinfrastructure
KW - plant biology
KW - plant phenotyping
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.11.014
DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.11.014
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28027865
AN - SCOPUS:85008240235
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 22
SP - 117
EP - 123
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 2
ER -