2030 Geophysics Collections
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Who will benefit
Researchers and research organisations, plant breeders, Australian grains industry, ata managers and analysts
Program
The Challenge
Modern cereal breeding and crop improvement rely on genotypic and phenotypic data to identify the important genetics that drive crop performance such as high yield, salinity, drought or heat tolerance.
The OzBarley genotype-to-phenotype (G2P) data asset will make this data available for the discovery of important barley genes, reducing the time and cost of breeding new barley varieties.
The Response
The OzBarley project developed a publicly available, FAIR-compliant genotype-to-phenotype (G2P) data asset that is specifically designed by, and for, Australian researchers and breeders focusing on barley as an economically important model crop.
The project involved the following elements:
- audit of existing datasets to understand data formats, metadata standards, existing ontologies, annotations, and assessment of datasets against the FAIR principles
- quality control and curation of individual datasets focussing on interoperability
- development of a G2P data model to create formal linkage between genomic and phenomic data
- delivery of enhanced combined data assets that are findable and accessible.
The Outcomes
Access the OzBarley dataset.
OzBarley created a G2P data asset for the assessment of crop genomes, and the corresponding variability in trait expression with relation to the environment. This allows researchers, breeders, bioinformaticians and machine learning experts to jointly work towards extracting maximum value from the data to support crop improvement.
Public/private collaboration will ensure open and integrated data access to academic and industry users, and a foundation for researchers to grow the data asset in the future.
Who Will Benefit
Researchers and research organisations, plant breeders, Australian grains industry, data managers and analysts will benefit from the project’s core features:
The Partners
Our partners were:
- Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF)
- Bioplatforms Australia (BPA).
Our collaborating organisations were:
- Australian Grain Technologies
- Intergrain
- Secobra Recherches
- University of Adelaide
- CSIRO
- Federation University
- James Hutton Institute, UK.
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Timeframe
November 2020 to October 2022
Current Phase
Complete
ARDC Co-investment
$400,000
Project lead
Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF)
