1. My-Plant.org A Phylogenetically Structured Social Network Matthew R Hanlon November 13, 2010

2. Overview iPlant Collaborative Social networking & Science My-Plant Usage Data The Future November 13, 2010

3. The iPlant Collaborative A $50M NSF effort to build CyberInfrastructure for “Grand Challenges” in the Plant Science Community, focused on food production, fuel production, and drug discovery. Current development focus on phylogenetics (understanding evolutionary relationships), and mapping genomic data to expressed characteristics November 13, 2010

4. Why iPlant at TACC? iPlant is an examplar project for TACC moving beyond “simply systems”. –A problem of tremendous import on science and society. –Computing and data at the center of solutions –Deep partnerships with domain experts needed for solutions Leverages many TACC core competencies: Scalable AlgorithmsLarge Data ComputingPortals/Advanced Interfaces VisualizationData Integration November 13, 2010

5. Social Networking & Science November 13, 2010

6. My-Plant: A Social Network Fills some of the spaces in between traditional HPC portals Connects individuals –Researchers, students, educators Adds additional value to data –Discussions –Related data –Context November 13, 2010

7. The usual suspects in social networking features –Image gallery –File sharing –Group/private messaging –Forums –Group posts –“Colleagues” –User profiles –Searchable content Social Networking for the Plant Sciences November 13, 2010

8. Another social network? November 13, 2010

9. My-Plant: Clades Monophyletic groups of organisms The “groups” in My-Plant Self-managed Aggregation points for content November 13, 2010

10. My-Plant: Clades Why organize in this way? –Traditional group structure of a social network is flat –Hierarchical social network is more than just interest groups More added value –Not only are users connected by common clades, but also by related clades –Content, too, gets added value from this relationship November 13, 2010

11. iPlant Integration Other iPlant project integration –Large Tree Viewer Contextual interlinking –Discovery Environment (DE) Sharing –BIEN name resolution November 13, 2010

12. User-Directed Millions of plant clades –Can’t include them all Users suggest clades to add to the network –Reviewed for scientific relevance, actual interest –Clades are managed by users November 13, 2010

13. Implementation Overview Drupal CMS Developing on the Drupal platform –Modules Authentication November 13, 2010

14. Drupal CMS CMS Platform Growing number of scientific sites using Drupal and developing Drupal modules –LifeDesks.org –iPlant Rapid, extensible, community support November 13, 2010

15. Drupal Modules Clade module –Main module driving My-Plant –Manages Drupal nodes as “Clades” –Workflows for adding and managing content Javascript InfoVis Toolkit (JIT) module –Visualization toolkit –Highlight the hierarchical network in My-Plant –Can be extended to include other viz user/content relationships Clade activity November 13, 2010

17. Usage Statistics November 13, 2010

18. Project History Project began late February 2010 Development started March 15 “Friendly user” release July 6 Official launch July 28 –Weekend of ASPB, BSA conferences 216 users, 57 clades November 13, 2010

19. Usage Statistics The first 6 weeks… 3687 visits 74 countries 1877 unique 24647 page views

20. Usage Statistics The next 8 weeks… 1204 visits 45 countries 680 unique 5907 page views

21. The Future of My-Plant November 13, 2010

22. The Future of My-Plant Integration with iPlant Services Integration with other social networks/services –Twitter, Facebook Open source release of Drupal Modules Social networking research –Sudha Ram, University of Arizona November 13, 2010

23. Acknowledgements PIs –Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis, Brent Mishler, Richard Olmstead, Richard McCourt, Martin Wojciechowski Graduate students –Lucas Majure, Adam Payton, Susan Tremblay, Thomas Madsen iPlant –Nirav Merchant TACC –Michael Gonzales, Stephen Mock, Praveen Nuthulapati November 13, 2010

24. Acknowledgements TACC, University of Texas, Austin iPlant Collaborative NSF (#EF-0735191) University of Florida University of California, Berkeley Arizona State University University of Arizona University of Washington Academy of Natural Sciences November 13, 2010

25. Fin. November 13, 2010