"KBase provides a computational framework and tools for integrating and analyzing large, diverse datasets generated by the scientific community to advance predictive understanding, manipulation, and design of biological processes in an environmental context. The purpose of KBase is to enable users to integrate a wide spectrum of genomics and systems biology data, models, and information for microbes, microbial communities, and plants. Powerful tools within KBase will allow users to analyze and simulate data to predict biological behavior, generate and test hypotheses, design new biological functions, and propose new experiments. "