Re: anyone following the iPlant challenge?

I don't know if it has to be something specific to plants- what areas are being neglected?
I guess you could think about things like photoreactions or root systems but I'm
not really sure what they hope to address that isn't being attacked in academic or
commercial labs. 

I was looking for an excuse to make a cavity database but not sure how it would
apply to this opportunity. That is, map out the shape and gross chemical environment 
inside cavities from a database of pdb files and put them into a new database but I never checked
to see what is available etc.


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> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:36:10 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Biodevelopers] anyone following the iPlant challenge?
>
> Yes, plant pathogens would definitely be considered a major area.
>
> Others might be uncovering the genes related to drought tolerance,
> salt, heat and cold stress and understanding their functions.
>
> best regards,
> Marty
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Mike Marchywka <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080416/full/452793b.html
> >
> > "Plant biologists were offered a dream ticket last week: US$50 million to address the biggest challenges in their field. But the money comes with a catch. It can't be used to generate new data, only to create user-friendly computational tools. And, perhaps hardest of all, researchers have to persuade others in the field to collaborate on how to spend the funds.
> > "
> >
> > Personally, I'd be interested in tools for finding a rapid response to emerging pathogens.
> > Ug99 comes to mind. Not entirely sure what all this would include however.
> >
> >
> >
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