Introducing the Brassica Information Portal : Towards integrating genotypic and phenotypic Brassica crop data [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]

Summary, in English

The Brassica Information Portal (BIP) is a centralised repository for brassica phenotypic data. The site hosts trait data associated with brassica research and breeding experiments conducted on brassica crops, that are used as oilseeds, vegetables, livestock forage and fodder and for biofuels. A key feature is the explicit management of meta-data describing the provenance and relationships between experimental plant materials, as well as trial design and trait descriptors. BIP is an open access and open source project, built on the schema of CropStoreDB, and as such can provide trait data management strategies for any crop data. A new user interface and programmatic submission/retrieval system helps to simplify data access for researchers, breeders and other end-users. BIP opens up the opportunity to apply integrative, cross-project analyses to data generated by the Brassica Research Community. Here, we present a short description of the current status of the repository.

• Author: Annemarie H. Eckes; Tomasz Gubała; Piotr Nowakowski; Tomasz Szymczyszyn; Rachel Wells; Judith A. Irwin; Carlos Horro; John M. Hancock; Graham King; Sarah C. Dyer; Wiktor Jurkowski
• Publishing year: 2017-11-15
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: F1000Research
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 465
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11301.2
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd.
• Topic: Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Agricultural Sciences
• Keywords: Brassice breeding; plant database; database; genotype-phenotype relationships
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2046-1402