Developing a research cyberinfrastructure in Colombia

The Colombian Cyberinfrastructure Consortium for Biodiversity, C3biodiversidad, aims to develop and promote a scientific cyberinfrastructure in Colombia for analysis of natural and agricultural biodiversity. Exploring and investigating the wealth of information contained within each of the thousands of species in these ecosystems, especially with the advent of modern life sciences methods, starts to stretch the capacity of single research groups. This can only be achieved through a greater access to data, enabled through effective and efficient infrastructures - ensuring that we are harnessing the best expertise from all around the world to work on this swathe of grand issues. A research cyberinfrastructure aims to meet the needs of the life science community through democratised access to computational resources.