Plant and Animal Genome XXI Conference

January 11 - 16, 2013

Managing Crop Phenotype Data

This workshop will concentrate on the topic of specifying phenotypes so that they are efficiently queried in databases. A phenotype exists at the intersection of an individual (a breeding line for crop scientists), a trait, and a trial. There are challenges in specifying all three axes of this intersection. With genotyping costs down, we now live in a phenotype-limited research environment making it sensible to focus on storage and access to this precious resource. Furthermore, phenotypes are now linked to each other through their connection to genotypes and we gain inferential strength by cumulating them. We want to invite groups to present how they specify phenotypes and their related trial, trait, and plant or seed identities.