Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation

Development of long-term sustainable sources of funding for scientific databases to support their operations and enhance their ability to serve the research community. We supported three external partner databases (repbase, cipres and cyverse) by enabling them to bring in subscription or membership revenue.

Development and maintenance of phylogenes, a database of scientific knowledge about gene function in 40 plant species and 10 non-plant model organisms. The phylogenes scientific database served the public with over 14,000 separate visits to the site, over 22,000 individual page views, and an average of 900 unique visitors per month.

Development and maintenance of morphobank, an open-access web application with tools and archives for evolutionary research in phylogenetics, specifically systematics and cladistics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). In 2024, the resource served the public with over 29,000 separate sessions, over 171,000 individual page views, and an average of 1,000 unique visitors per month. The resource contains over 1,600 published projects, with over 300 being published in the last year.