This panel will present our experience in building the Arabidopsis Information Portal (AIP; https://www.araport.org). AIP is a data hub that enables bioinformaticians and data scientists a platform for interacting with multiple genomics datasets for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. AIP provides users a configurable workspace with community-build data "apps" for data retrieval, analysis, and visualization.

Attendees will learn about:

• How we are utilizing Drupal as a platform for developing a federated data portal
• Integrating external APIs and services to leverage data and compute backends
• Building a community-extensible platform for building "apps" that leverage data sets made available through AIP

AIP is built on Drupal 7 and is committed to open source (https://github.com/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal). It is powered by a Science-as-a-Service platform developed by the National Science Foundation-funded iPlant Collaborative project known as Agave API (http://agaveapi.co).

Matthew Hanlon manages the Web and Mobile Group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The Univeristy of Texas at Austin. He has extensive experience building portals and science gateways for computational science communities including XSEDE (https://www.xsede.org), the iPlant Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org), and TACC (http://www.tacc.utexas.edu).