This March the library industry is gathering to talk about e-resources, digital services, and technology. As a nonprofit organization providing trusted, community-led digital resources for scholarly researchers, Phoenix Bioinformatics is excited to join the event — and the conversation. Catch us in the exhibit hall at booth #818.
Who we are
Phoenix Bioinformatics is the nonprofit home of leading community research tools MorphoBank and TAIR. We provide the funding, practical, and infrastructure support to keep these vital resources at the forefront of their fields. That means maintaining and improving technology platforms, curating research resources, implementing top-quality metadata and preservation standards, managing subscriptions and memberships, and more.
Our tools operate different business models, but share a deep commitment to sustainability, community and cost-recovery.
Our tools
MorphoBank is a collaborative Open Access resource for the creation, preservation, and sharing of phylogenetic matrices. Researchers in evolutionary biology, comparative biology, paleontology, and anthropology rely on MorphoBank’s toolset for tree-of-life investigations. For researchers, MorphoBank the freshly replatformed interface offers rapid real-time collaboration, large data capacity, and a range of powerful purpose-built research tools, citable DOIs, and FAIR metadata.
MorphoBank is 100% free to use, and we strongly encourage the use of Creative Commons licenses. Our member libraries contribute to sustain quality control operations, maintain and update technologies, and continue evolving new and essential research tools.
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) is the most comprehensive and trusted reference resource for plant researchers. Curated by PhD plant biologists, it brings together gene function data including individual genes, genetic sequences, gene family, gene expression, and the complete genome map, all augmented with links and citations to the relevant literature alongside built-in visualization tools. All community content is free for anyone to view or contribute to. Curated content is priced on a usage basis, with 50 complimentary usage units granted annually when users sign in with ORCID — enough for users who reference TAIR just a few times a year.
Over its 25 years of operation, TAIR has built up a devoted community of researchers. So much so that, over the past four years, more than 100 researchers from labs around the world have joined in a massive volunteer effort to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome using the latest information and technologies.
Institutional memberships grant access to anyone accessing TAIR at a discounted bulk rate. That saves administrative time, and research grant dollars.
See you soon!
Stop by the Phoenix Bioinformatics booth #818 to meet our Executive Director, Josh Young, and our Sales Director, Amina Khababa. We’d love to connect, hear your feedback, share more about Phoenix and our tools, and explore ways to get involved. We look forward to seeing you there!
