TAIR continues to grow and evolve along with its research community, data and knowledge about the organism. Decades of research have produced an expansive collection of data about Arabidopsis that serves as a reference for understanding plant gene functions and ultimately unraveling mechanisms of plant physiology, biochemistry and development. Arabidopsis was the first plant genome to be sequenced, and subsequently the subject of a concerted effort to understand the functions of the more than 30,000 genes identified to date ( Arabidopsis Genome Initiative 2000) ). Arabidopsis is an attractive model organism due to its small genome size, experimental tractability and short generation time ( Somerville and Koornneef 2002 Koornneef and Meinke 2010). The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a curated online database of genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana ( Lamesch et al. Phoenix has successfully transitioned TAIR to subscription-based funding while still keeping its data relatively open and accessible.Īrabidopsis thaliana is an annual dicotyledonous plant that serves as a model plant for thousands of researchers across the globe. In response to the loss of government grant funding, the TAIR team founded a nonprofit entity, Phoenix Bioinformatics, with the aim of developing sustainable funding models for biological databases, using TAIR as a test case. TAIR’s focus in an extensive and evolving ecosystem of online resources for plant biology is on the critically important role of extracting experimentally-based research findings from the literature and making that information computationally accessible. TAIR actively engages with its users who contribute expertise and data that augments the work of the curatorial staff.
TAIR provides tools for data visualization and analysis, and enables ordering of seed and DNA stocks, protein chips and other experimental resources. TAIR’s biocurators systematically extract, organize, and interconnect experimental data from the literature along with computational predictions, community submissions, and high throughput datasets to present a high quality and comprehensive picture of Arabidopsis gene function.
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a continuously updated, online database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana that provides a global research community with centralized access to data for over 30,000 Arabidopsis genes.
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