The Project Objectives
The main objectives of the Legume Federation are to facilitate collaborative development of software, methods, and standards that will be useable by existing and future projects - and to help build a healthy research ecosystem. The products include items listed under Tools, Technology, and Methods & Standards. Much of the "product" will also be infrastructure and communication. Infrastructure in this context includes: metadata standards; software packages used by several groups; integrative analyses such as gene families.
In terms of communication: to stay in the loop, we encourage you to sign up for our quarterly newsletters about the Legume Federation community, or to follow us on twitter @LegumeFed - or contact us with questions or suggestions.
Particular goals of the Legume Federation include:
What does it mean to be part of "The Federation"?
The current Legume Federation "community" mostly consists of biologists and data scientists working on several genomic data and on-line database projects. We would very much like to see this community grow, so please contact us if you would like to be involved in any way. Some means of participating: