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our mission

Driving the digital change in plant science

DataPLANT’s mission is to provide a sustainable and well annotated data management platform for plant sciences. DataPLANT will pave the way from classical paper publication to pure data publication by making use of the Annotated Research Context (ARC).

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the community

Fundamental research in plant science

DataPLANT is primarily geared towards the needs of fundamental plant research (e.g. those represented by the DFG categories 2.12-[01 evolution and systematics of plants and fungi, 04 plant physiology, 05 plant biochemistry and biophysics, 06 plant cell and developmental biology, 07 plant genetics and genomics]). As such DataPLANT is especially adapted to large scale data sets, be it omics science or imaging, and is ready to store petabaytes of annotated data.

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annotated research context

Understanding ARC publications

DataPLANT enables users to store their data in form of an Annotated Research Context (ARC). This includes not only the measurement data, but also (meta)data annotations, tools, and scripts. This will allow reproducibility and also forwarding “raw data” and metadata slices to public repositories (e.g. EBI, NCBI etc.).

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service

Building the DataPLANT infrastructure and service landscape

DataPLANT’s mission is service standing on the shoulders of giants. As such it relies on existing IT infrastructure and builds user-oriented services. DataPLANT wants to break the paradigm of “we are a --- mandated provider so you have to live with our tools where even IT experts get gray hair when submitting data” to “we understand that annotating data and providing metadata takes precious and we are in it together so let’s make this as easy as possible”.

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News

18 Sep

DataPLANT participates in the 3. Open Science Festival

The 3rd Open Science Festival Germany took place at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 17-18 September 2024 under the motto Meet, Share, Inspire, Care. It was aimed equally at newcomers, interested parties and experts with the aim to facilitate encounters and dialogue in a wide variety of formats. DataPLANT was actively participating with a market booth together with other NFDI consortia to present The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)...

5 Sep

IPK Gatersleben joins DataPLANT as participating institution

Following its community centered strategy DataPLANT took in a new participant broadening its base and now including a non-university research institution in the field of plant biology. The research goals of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) are directed towards an efficient and sustainable supply of food, energy and raw materials and thus towards meeting global challenges. At the IPK...

13 Aug

DataPLANT renewal proposal submitted

After several months of preparation, we submitted the DataPLANT proposal for the second funding phase. A big thank you to everyone for their professional and intellectual input, as well as to the writing team for their commitment and perseverance! The fundamental goal of DataPLANT is to foster community participation and engagement by providing support that facilitates research data management (RDM) and FAIR compliance for researchers. It aims to bridge the gap...

7 Aug

Notification on accepted contributions to the Base4NFDI User Conference

DataPLANT is among the initiators and strong supporters of Base4NFDI, actively embracing joint efforts on infrastructure development. Thus we contributed to the recent call-for-participation to the first Base4NFDI User Conference held in Berlin in November 2024. This two-day event aims to showcase basic services...