BreeDB
Introduction
Plant breeding research nowadays deals with a lot of data, resulting from phenotyping in field and greenhouse trials but also from high-throughput analysis of molecular markers, RNA transcripts (microarrays), proteins and metabolites. Databases are becoming indispensible to manage these data and to use them for the selection of plant material and for identification of markers, metabolites and mechanisms associated with important agronomic traits.
We are developing a relational database which aims to support breeding for quantitative agronomical traits. The database can be explored through a web-based interface, which offers tools to present basic statistical overviews such as box plots , histograms, but also multivariate tools. Graphical genotyping tools are available to show molecular marker data and QTL data in relation to genetic linkage maps. In addition, photos of each accession can be shown together with a detailed report of observations made on this accession.
BreeDB is currently used within the following projects:
- EU-SOL Germplasm & Phenotype database
- CBSG Project databases
- Wageningen UR Plantbreeding internal databases
Interested? Please have a look at the following poster. We are also working on a short manual & tutorial on BreeDB. More information about BreeDB and how to obtain the software will be added later to this page. If you would like to obtain more information about BreeDB now, do not hessitate to contact me directly.