The new Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) is a collaborative effort designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities, and plants. It will be a community-driven, extensible and scalable open-source software framework and application system. KBase will offer free and open access to data, models and simulations, enabling scientists and researchers to build new knowledge and share their findings.
What can KBase do?
- Combine heterogenous data types
- Offer standardized access to bioinformatic and modeling analyses
- Use evidence-supported annotations of genome structure and genetic function
- Discover new associations and network structures in community and molecular networks
- Map genotype to complex organismal traits
- Design and refine experiments using models of metabolism, regulation and community function
- Enable sharing of data, hypotheses, and newly-generated knowledge