The Generation Challenge Programme Platform: Semantic Standards and Workbench for Crop Science.
Abstract
The Generation Challenge programme (GCP) is a global crop research consortium directed toward crop improvement through the application of comparative biology and genetic resources characterization to plant breeding. A key consortium research activity is the development of a GCP crop bioinformatics platform to support GCP research. This platform includes the following: (i) shared, public platform-independent domain models, ontology, and data formats to enable interoperability of data and analysis flows within the platform; (ii) web service and registry technologies to identify, share, and integrate information across diverse, globally dispersed data sources, as well as to access high-performance computational (HPC) facilities for computationally intensive, high-throughput analyses of project data; (iii) platform-specific middleware reference implementations of the domain model integrating a suite of public (largely open-access/-source) databases and software tools into a workbench to facilitate biodiversity analysis, comparative analysis of crop genomic data, and plant breeding decision making.
Citation
Bruskiewich, R.; Senger, M.; Davenport, G.; Ruiz, M.; Rouard, M.; Hazekamp, T.; Takeya, M.; Doi, K.; Satoh, K.; Costa, M.; Simon, R.; Balaji, J.; Akintunde, A.; Mauleon, T.; Wanchana, S.; Shah, T.; Anacleto, M.; Portugal, A.; Ulat, V.J.; Thongjuea, S.; Braak, K.; Ritter, S.; Dereeper, A.; Skofic, M.; Rojas, E.; Martins, N.; Pappas, G.; Alamban, T.; Almodiel, R.; Barboza, L.H.; Manansala, K.; Mendoza, M.J.; Morales, J.; Peralta, B.; Valerio, R.; Zhang Y; Gregorio, S.; Hermocilla, J.; Echavez, M.; Yap, J.M.; Farmer, A.; Schiltz, G.; Lee, J.; Casstevens, T.; Jaiswal, P.; Meintjes, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Good, B.; Wagner, J.; Morris, J.; Marshall, D.; Collins, A.; Kikuchi, S.; Metz, T.; McLaren, G.; van Hintum, T.; Detras, J. The Generation Challenge Programme Platform: Semantic Standards and Workbench for Crop Science. International Journal of Plant Genomics (2008) 2008: 1-6. [DOI: 10.1155/2008/369601]
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