Bioinformatics in the plant genomic and phenomic domain: The German contribution to resources, services and perspectives

Thomas Schmutzer, Marie E. Bolger, Stephen Rudd, Jinbo Chen, Heidrun Gundlach, Daniel Arend, Markus Oppermann, Stephan Weise, Matthias Lange, Manuel Spannagl, Björn Usadel, Klaus F.X. Mayer (+1 others)
2017 Journal of Biotechnology  
A B S T R A C T Plant genetic resources are a substantial opportunity for plant breeding, preservation and maintenance of biological diversity. As part of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) the German Crop BioGreenformatics Network (GCBN) focuses mainly on crop plants and provides both data and software infrastructure which are tailored to the needs of the plant research community. Our mission and key objectives include: (1) provision of transparent access to
more » ... seeds, (2) the delivery of improved workflows for plant gene annotation, and (3) implementation of bioinformatics services that link genotypes and phenotypes. This review introduces the GCBN's spectrum of web-services and integrated data resources that address common research problems in the plant genomics community. Overview of main services offered by GCBN. With the broad spectrum capture by the seven main services and eight assigned sub services GCBN is providing a wide range of applications. With this we provide several established solutions for the plant science community to accomplish genomics and phenomics tasks.
doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.07.006 pmid:28698099 fatcat:mvlhv6xkevdy5bz4zknuo436oa