BrAPI – Plant Database Map

Year launched

2014

Home institute(s)

: BrAPI Community

Funders

: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boyce Thompson Institute, CGIAR Roots, Tubers and Bananas, Cornell University, Excellence in Breeding Platform

Partners (past & present)

: Breeding Insight, CGIAR Integrated Breeding Platform, DivSeek Canada, ELIXIR, ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, EMPHASIS, GOBII, GT4SP, NextGen Cassava, PHENOME-EMPHASIS, Sol Genomics Network, Yambase, Bioversity International, Boyce Thompson Institute, CIMMYT, Cornell University, DArT, Earlham Institute, ELIXIR, Excellence in Breeding Platform, Genome Prairie, ICRISAT, INRA, INRA Versailles-Grignon, IPK-Gatersleben, IRRI, James Hutton Institute, North Carolina State University, Patranca, Plant and Food Research (NZ), South Green Bioinformatics Platform, USDA-ARS, Wageningen Environmental Research

Functionality

: Standardized RESTful Web Service API Specification. JSON format.

Domain

: Genebanking, Plant Breeding

Data type(s)

: Geographical (for studies), Genotype, Phenotype, Sample metadata, Study (programme), Study (trial)

Research papers

: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz190

Documentation

: https://wiki.brapi.org/index.php/BrAPI

Standards used

: REST

Current interoperability

: B4R, Beegmac, BrAPI Drupal implementation, brapi R package, brapiui R, brapixR, Cassavabase, Comparative Map Viewer, Crop Ontology, EU-SOL Database, Flapjack, GBIS/I Genbank Information System (IPK), Germinate, Gigwa, GnpIS, GOBii, Graphical Phenotype Filtering, HIDAP, ISMU, KDDaRT, MIAPPE. Servers: Breeding Management System, Musa Germplasm Information System, Musabase, PHIS, PIPPA, Sol Genomics Network, Standards: Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors, Study Comparison, Sweetpotatobase, T3, TERRA REF. Clients: BrAPPs (Pedigree Viewer, Variable Ontology Widget), Yambase

Planned interoperability

: JSON-LD

What is open?

API

System update procedures

: Regular hackathons,held in turn at different community member institutions.

Curation type

: N/A

User training options

: Active online community, Wiki

Data system type

: An API to standardise access to plant breeding data from diverse databases.

Current users

: Breeding Management System (CGIAR), Sol Genomics Network