The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $50 million to a multi-institution collaborative headquartered at the University of Arizona’s (UA) BIO5 Institute to create a national cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences, which includes the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin as a key partner. This renewal grant for the iPlant Collaborative (iPlant) also includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York and the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  The original five-year $50 million project, initiated in 2008, was the largest grant ever awarded by the NSF in the biological sciences. Today, even with the current constraints on funding for federal research, the NSF renewed the iPlant award for another five years, increasing the total investment in the project to $100 million. To read further, please visit http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/press-releases/2013/iplant-awarded-50m-renewal-grant.