Data Management and Visualization in Digital Phenotyping

Digital Phenotyping is the future for product development in the breeding and crop protection industry. Camera’s and sensors can automatically phenotype plants and reveal information about plant morphology, color, root architecture and even physiological traits, while  plant development can be followed over time from multiple angles. As a result, the size of the total data set is increasing dramatically compared to traditional phenotyping methods, and users tend to get lost in the tremendous amounts of images, growth movies, data tables and figures. The challenge is to make data and results easily accessible to all users in the company, allow them to mine the results themselves at different levels, and ensure that results are optimally used for product development and evaluation. Therefore, KeyGene developed Phenoreport, an interactive data visualization tool. Phenoreport allows researchers to mine the results by creating tables and graphs and performing a comprehensive data analysis. Phenoreport can handle large amounts of digital phenotype data and allows researchers to easily store and share the data within the company. It contains a dashboard interface with all phenotypic data collected in a single research project, ranging from raw to outlier corrected data, from growth curves to scatterplots, and from results to reporting. A unique feature is that researchers can apply filters and sorting to easily draft their own tables and graphs. This poster will share the bottlenecks of data management in digital phenotyping, present an approach to overcome them, and underlines the benefits of accessibility and utilization of digital phenotyping data inside of a company or institute.