Federal Reports on Cyberinfrastructure Needs
- "Plant Biology Databases: A Needs Assessment" by L. Stein et al.
- "Report of the NSF Workshop for a Plant Cyberinfrastructure Center" by E. Meyerowitz and Seung Y. Rhee
- "Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st Century Discovery" by the National Science Foundation
Computation and Cyberinfrastructure
Grand Challenges in Biology
- "Fundamental Questions in Biology" by Simon Levin
- "Cooperation among Microorganisms" by Ned S. Wingreen and Simon Levin
- "Balancing Robustness and Evolvability" by Richard E. Lenski, Jeffrey E. Barrick and Charles Ofria
- "Viral Evolution in the Genomic Age" by Edward C. Holmes
Grand Challenges Biology Basics: Technologies, Data, Standards and Approaches
- "Standards for systems biology" by A. Brazma, M. Krestyaninova, U Sarkans (Requires Login)
- "Quantitative Proteomics in Plants: Choices in Abundance" by J.J. Thelen, S.C. Peck
- "Network Inference, Analysis, and Modeling in Systems Biology" by R. Albert
- "Green Genes-Comparative Genomics of the Green Branch of Life" by J.L. Bowman, S.K. Floyd, K. Sakakibara (Requires Login)
- "Predicting essential components of signal transduction networks: a dynamic model of guard cell abscisic acid signaling" by S. Li, S.M. Assmann, R. Albert
- "The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the Gene to the Biosphere" by M.B Jones, M.P. Schildhauer, O.J. Reichman and S. Bowers (Requires Login)
- "Project Annotation" by Sandra Porter (Requires Login)
- "Genomes 3" by T.A. Brown
- "New Biology for Engineers and Computer Scientists" by Torenzen and Byers
Societal Implications of Biology Research and Responsibilities of Researchers
- "Returning to Our Roots: Making Plant Biology Research Relevant to Future Challenges in Agriculture" by Steven Rothstein
- "Computer Science: Science 2.0" by Ben Shneiderman (Requires Login)
- "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers"
- "Rewarding Collaboration" by Richard Jorgensen
- "Transcending Transgenics— Are There “Babies In The Bathwater,” Or Is That A Dorsal Fin?" by Richard Jefferson
- "Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative" by Richard Jefferson
- "21st Century Plant Biology: Viva la Revolucion?" by Richard Jorgensen
- "The Freedom to Innovate: A Privilege or a Right?" by Richard Jorgensen
- Why Web 2.0 is failing Biology by David Crotty