The International Crop Information System is a generic information management system for documenting germplasm genealogies with associated metadata and to link these with associated evaluation data. ICIS includes both a Genealogy Management System, which assigns unique Germplasm Identifiers (GID) to samples, and a Data Management System for experimental data and metadata. Implementations of ICIS were developed for a range of specific crops.
Year announced | : | 1995 |
Home institute(s)
: CIMMYT, IRRIProject history
:ICIS was developed in collaboration between CIMMYT, IRRI and other CGIAR Research Centres, building on the International Wheat Information System developed on a mainframe computer at CIMMYT in the 1980s and subsequently distributed in a compact disc version.
The functional scope of ICIS was focused on data sharing and access rather than producing new analytical tools, in response to an awareness that the major bottlenecks in utilising data were not at the analytical or software level but in the extensive labour required to find, extract, prepare and manage data.