Sustaining: A Bridge to Sustainability for the CIPRES Science Gateway

可持续发展：CIPRES 科学网关可持续发展的桥梁

• 批准号: 2211631
• 负责人: Mark Miller
• 金额: $ 111.27万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustaining; Bridge; Sustainability; CIPRES; Science

This award to the University of California - San Diego will sustain the online presence of the Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES) Science Gateway, an internet site that allows scientists from around the world to make discoveries more easily through access to community software for analyzing complex phylogenetic questions run on large NSF-funded compute clusters. Currently at least 12,000 scientists run tens of thousands of jobs each year using the CIPRES Gateway; these jobs are an essential part of making new scientific discoveries about the natural world and the origin of life on Earth. In the past year at least 1,800 scientific studies were published using results made possible by CIPRES. All of these studies would have been more difficult or even impossible without the access to resources that CIPRES provides. CIPRES makes it possible for researchers who do not have access to large local/campus computing resources to ask large questions and conduct difficult investigations. It also makes it possible for more than 100 instructors each year to train the next generation of phylogenetics researchers, using the finest tools available in the world. The impact of CIPRES on basic biological research is significant. Assuming current trends continue, CIPRES will support 6,000+ studies during the award period. The access provided by CIPRES allowed scientists to quickly investigate the origin and distribution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, emphasizing the value of a resource like CIPRES when scientists need to respond rapidly to an unforeseen, time-sensitive research problem.During this award, the researchers will focus on changing the CIPRES Science Gateway from an NSF-funded resource to a user-funded resource. The goal of the project is to develop tools and strategies that make it possible to sustain the CIPRES Science Gateway indefinitely via revenues generated from the project’s users and sponsors. At present thousands of users access and run jobs at CIPRES each year as part of their scientific investigations into the evolution of life on Earth. Given that the resource has enduring value to its community, the researchers will develop revenue streams that will allow maintenance and preservation of the resource in perpetuity without additional funding from NSF or other federal agencies. The proposed activities include software maintenance and systems administration tasks that preserve the operational integrity of job submissions, results storage, and results retrieval via a web-based graphical user interface that supports submissions by individual users, and via a RESTful application programming interface that supports submissions by other science gateways and desktop applications that require phylogenetic analyses. Additional activities will include routine updating, benchmarking, and release of current and new community codes; usage monitoring to ensure efficient and prudent use of NSF resources by the user community; user support; adjustments and bug fixes based on feedback from users; and reporting progress.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

授予加州大学圣地亚哥分校的这一奖项将维持系统发育研究网络基础设施 (CIPRES) 科学网关的在线存在，该网站允许来自世界各地的科学家通过访问用于分析复杂的社区软件来更轻松地进行发现目前，至少有 12,000 名科学家在 NSF 资助的大型计算集群上运行数以万计的工作；这些工作是自然科学新发现的重要组成部分。去年，至少有 1,800 项科学研究利用 CIPRES 的成果发表，如果没有 CIPRES 提供的资源，所有这些研究都会变得更加困难，甚至不可能。无法使用大量本地/校园计算资源的研究人员可以提出大型问题并进行困难的调查，这也使得每年超过 100 名教师可以利用该技术来培训下一代系统发育研究人员。假设当前的趋势继续下去，CIPRES 将在资助期间支持 6,000 多项研究，使科学家能够快速调查这些物质的起源和分布。 SARS-CoV-2 病毒，强调当科学家需要对不可预见的、时间敏感的研究问题快速做出反应时，像 CIPRES 这样的资源的价值。在这个奖项期间，研究人员将专注于改变 CIPRES科学网关从 NSF 资助的资源转变为用户资助的资源，该项目的目标是开发工具和策略，通过该项目的用户和赞助商产生的收入无限期地维持 CIPRES 科学网关。每年有 80% 的用户访问 CIPRES 并在其上运行工作，作为对地球生命进化进行科学研究的一部分。鉴于该资源对其社区具有持久价值，研究人员将开发收入来源，以维护和保存该资源。永久无需额外资金NSF 或其他联邦机构提议的活动包括软件维护和系统管理任务，通过支持个人用户提交的基于 Web 的图形用户界面以及通过RESTful 应用程序编程接口，支持其他需要系统发育分析的科学网关和桌面应用程序的提交。其他活动将包括常规更新、基准测试以及当前和新社区代码的发布，以确保 NSF 资源的高效和谨慎使用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。