# Phoenix news & resources

Welcome to the Phoenix Bioinformatics news & resources hub — your destination for the latest updates, insights, and guidance in the world of sustainable digital research infrastructure. Here, you’ll find recent announcements, progress updates on TAIR and MorphoBank, community resources and documentation, and more.

## News from Phoenix

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[Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Yasin Kaya, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/meet-the-volunteer-researchers-behind-tair12-yasin-kaya-max-planck-institute-for-plant-breeding-research/)  
January 20, 2026

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[TAIR invites you to open office hours in January, February, and March](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/tair-invites-you-to-open-office-hours-in-january-february-and-march/)  
January 14, 2026

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[TAIR completes first Accessibility Conformance Report](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/tair-completes-first-accessibility-conformance-report/)  
January 7, 2026

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[Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Emmanuel Boutet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/meet-the-volunteer-researchers-behind-tair12-emmanuel-boutet-swiss-institute-of-bioinformatics/)  
December 22, 2025

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[Phoenix Bioinformatics welcomes new board members](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/phoenix-bioinformatics-welcomes-new-board-members/)  
December 1, 2025

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[Presenting the new MorphoBank: Faster, cleaner, more scaleable, and more sustainable](https://phoenixbioinfo.org/presenting-the-new-morphobank/)  
November 6, 2025

## Community resources & documentation

[TAIR blog](https://phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TB/overview?homepageId=1310745)

[Arabidopsis research community site](https://conf.phoenixbioinformatics.org/display/COM/Arabidopsis+Community)

[PhyloGenes support site](https://conf.phoenixbioinformatics.org/display/PHGSUP/PHGSupport+Home)

[MorphoBank documentation](https://conf.phoenixbioinformatics.org/display/MD/MorphoBank+Documentation)

[AgBioData sustainability working group](https://www.agbiodata.org/working_groups/sustainability)

## More background information on research data sustainability

[RDA on the broad challenges of research data management](https://www.rd-alliance.org/)

[Following the evidence for sustainable open science](https://journals.gmu.edu/index.php/osi/article/view/3553/1970)

[Needs and challenges in sustainable research data](https://scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/research-data/sustainable-research-data/)

[MorphoBank's funding plans unfold](https://tbrnewsmedia.com/power-of-3-sbus-maureen-oleary-makes-morphobank-funding-plans/)

[Model organism databases need our support](https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0276-z)

[Funding for key data resources in jeopardy](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.351.6268.14)

[Sustaining the big-data ecosystem](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.351.6268.14)

[Making and mining the TAIR gold-standard](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1526968x/2015/53/8)

[TAIR as case-study for sustainable biocuration](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795935/)

[TAIR prepares to charge users](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13642)