Eva Huala's presentation on Database Sustainability at the 2014 Plant and Animal Genome meeting.

1. Exploring a New Model for Database Sustainability
Eva Huala

2. Continue updates
Static site, no further updates
No longer available
Explore new areas
Should TAIR be continued?
Is there a continued need for what TAIR does?
Will other resources exactly duplicate TAIR?
Is there an area where TAIR can innovate?

3. Nov 1, 2012 - Oct 30, 2013
TAIR usage is high and continues
to climb
World
USA
USA
JapanUK
China
Germany

4. New gene function
New Gene Ontology annotation
New gene
symbol
Publication
Updated Oct. 22, 2013
TAIR role in updating plant datasets from literature is unique
TAIR: fresh data from literature NCBI: not yet updated

5. TAIR innovation – new ways to sustain scientific resources
Why is a new funding model needed?
• Budget constraints at NSF and other funding agencies
• Grant funding is inherently unstable
Why subscriptions?
• TAIR is widely used (60,000 unique visitors/month)
• Open source journal approach (charging submitters) not yet feasible
• Helps guideTAIR’s development toward maximum utility

6. Always Free:
 Home
 Search pages
 ABRC stock and ordering
 News
Metered pages:
 Locus page
 Analysis tools
How will subscriptions work?
For those who don’t subscribe:
Not accessible:
 Bulk data dowload
Limited number of
pages per month
Institution-level subscriber
 All pages available, no login required
 Verification by IP address range
 Cost based on usage level
Personal subscriber
 Login for full access

7. Free pages
Home page
Search results
Searches

8. Free pages
ABRC

9. Metered pages
LoLocus page LoBLAST
LoGBrowse

10. Subscription
required

11. The goal: Make subscriptions affordable for all
Company subscriptions (based on size):
• Over $5B annual sales: $25,000/year
• Under $5B annual sales: $5,000/year
Institutional subscriptions (based on usage):
• Tier 1 (over 5000 visits/year): $7500/year
• Tier 2 (2501-5000 visits/year):$5000/year
• Tier 3 (1001-2500 visits/year): $2500/year
• Tier 4 (less than 1000 visits/year): $500/year
Individual / Lab subscriptions
• $95/year individual (or $9.50/month)
• $85/person/year lab subscription
Free subscriptions for students enrolled in a course using TAIR
DuPont, Monsanto,
BASF, Dow, Bayer…
UC Davis, Michigan State
UMass Amherst, U of Arizona
Caltech
Swarthmore
Examples:

12. LoUC Davis – 11,543 visits
Institutional TAIR subscription price based on usage - Google Analytics

13. Phoenix Bioinformatics
 Nonprofit
 Mission to make scientific data resources sustainable
 Board of Directors:
Eric Lyons (CoGe, U. of Arizona)
Murray Phimester (former CFO at Mendel Bio)
Jonathan Dugan (PLOS Labs)
Todd Vision (Dryad, NESCent)

14. TAIR, AIP and other resources
TAIR DB
Gene function
Gene symbol
Allele name
Phenotype
GO annotation
PO annotation
TAIR: Reporters on the beat (New York Times)
AIP: News service (Assoc. Press)

15. Funding Agencies:
TAIR: Gene Ontology:
TAIR Team:
Donghui Li
Tanya
Berardini Bob MullerDavid Huang
Booth and Poster:
Poster 1009 (today, 3:00-4:30)
Plant Resources Booth 305 (look for LemnaTec ball)