<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> Information Resource (TAIR) is a web-based community database
for the model plant <italic>Arabidopsis thaliana</italic>. It provides an integrated view of genes,
sequences, proteins, germplasms, clones, metabolic pathways, gene expression, ecotypes,
polymorphisms, publications, maps and community information. TAIR is developed
and maintained by collaboration between software developers and biologists.
Biologists provide specification and use cases for the system, acquire, analyse and
curate data, interact with users and test the software. Software developers design,
implement and test the database and software. In this review, we briefly describe how
TAIR was built and is being maintained.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2004 Jun; 5(4):362-369