Musa Germplasm Information System
Unraveling the genetic diversity held in genebanks on a large scale is underway, due to advances in Next-generation sequence (NGS) based technologies that produce highdensity genetic markers for a large number of samples at low cost. Genebank users should be in a position to identify and select germplasm from the global genepool based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic data. To facilitate this, a new generation of information systems is being designed to efficiently handle data and link it with other external resources such as genome or breeding databases. The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the database for global ex situ-held banana genetic resources, has been developed to address those needs in a user-friendly way. In developing MGIS, we selected a generic database schema (Chado), the robust content management system Drupal for the user interface, and Tripal, a set of Drupal modules which links the Chado schema to Drupal. MGIS allows germplasm collection examination, accession browsing, advanced search functions, and germplasm orders. Additionally, we developed unique graphical interfaces to compare accessions and to explore them based on their taxonomic information. Accession-based data has been enriched with publications, genotyping studies and associated genotyping datasets reporting on germplasm use. Finally, an interoperability layer has been implemented to facilitate the link with complementary databases like the Banana Genome Hub and the MusaBase breeding database.
Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS).
File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.crop-diversity.org/mgis/
Funding
Bioversity International
History
Data contact name
Musa Germplasm Information SystemData contact email
m.ruas@cgiar.orgPublisher
Alliance Bioversity-CIATIntended use
Genebank users should be in a position to identify and select germplasm from the global genepool based on a combination of passport, genotypic and phenotypic data. To facilitate this, a new generation of information systems is being designed to efficiently handle data and link it with other external resources such as genome or breeding databases. The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the database for global ex situ-held banana genetic resources, has been developed to address those needs in a user-friendly way.Use limitations
The passport and Characterization Data are provided by partners through a Data Sharing Agreement. During the update process a subset of passport data is checked against existing taxonomy but the data provided, being property of the Data provide, are not changed just flagged for further curation.Temporal Extent Start Date
2012-01-01Frequency
- periodic
Theme
- Not specified
Geographic Coverage
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- biota
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
Musa; germplasm; information systems; photographs; geographic information systems; bananas; single nucleotide polymorphism; crosslinking; genotyping; breeding; genomics; genome; exports; Musa balbisiana; taxonomy; genetic variation; gene banks; genetic markers; gene pool; phenotype; databases; data collectionPending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public