Introducing the Brassica Information Portal

What is it about?

We have introduced the Brassica Information Portal, a web repository for Brassica phenotype data. This article describes the current state of development and future plans. In particular, we describe tool architecture and programmatic and wizard-based submission of experimental plant phenotyping data. Most importantly BIP is a first fully open source tool to manage and analyse plant phenotyping trait data, and therefore could be applied to research on any other crop.

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Why is it important?

We hope that BIP encourages data sharing and re-use by helping to integrate and harmonise datasets generated worldwide and therefore will play important role in helping projects aiming at development of better crops and improvement of food security.