COPO – Plant Database Map

Year launched

2014

Home institute(s)

: Earlham Institute

Funders

: BBSRC, CGIAR, Earlham Institute

Project history

:
Initially funded by a BBSRC grant, 2014-2018, subsequently supported through the Earlham Institute Strategic Programme. Further funding provided by the CGIAR in order to support interoperability of COPO with the GARDIAN search tool and CG Core metadata standard.

Partners (past & present)

: EMBL-EBI, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of York

Desired partners

: Darwin Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Functionality

: Accession index, Annotation tool, Data deposition broker

Domain

: Genomics, Plant Breeding

Data type(s)

: Figures, Presentations, Publications, Agronomic, Genomic, Phenotypic (metadata – no current repository for phenomic data), Socioeconomic (agricultural)

Research papers

: https://doi.org/10.1101/782771

Documentation

: https://copo-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Software used

: CyVerse, Ontology Lookup Service, ORCID

Standards used

: CG Core, DOI, ISA-Tools, MIAPPE, PubMedID

Current interoperability

: GARDIAN

Desired interoperability

: Germinate

Planned interoperability

: EMBL-EBI BioImaging repository

What is open?

Software

System update procedures

: Developed by core team,Open source versions can be forked

Curation type

: guided, Manual

User training options

: Wizards guide users through the registration process.

Approximate number of users

: 60-70

Data system type

: Data annotation deposition and indexing portal, incorporating web interfaces and APIs.

Current users

: CG centre data managers, Earlham Institute

Reference usecase(s)

: CGIAR Centres