The Brassica Information Portal: Towards Integrating Phenotype and Genotype Data.

The Brassica Information Portal (BIP) is a web repository for population and trait scoring information related to Brassica breeding. High throughput phenotyping has increased the need to make the rapidly accumulating volumes of phenotype data available and accessible in a standardised manner. Serving as a community resource, the BIP helps define common data and metadata standards relevant for describing Brassica diversity. This is especially important for genotype-phenotype association studies in crop improvement.

BIP provides access to trial data including metadata and trait data as well as QTL and marker data linked to traits. It further includes population data with accession and line information, cross-linked to their associated sequences in SRA.

BIP hosts lines assessed for development and agricultural traits which can be used for GWAS analysis, for marker development and ultimately crop improvement. Submission and extraction of data is possible using the web interface and the API. Future aims are to expand our database to hosting SNP next to marker data. We also plan to further integrate our resource with ensembl plants and CyVerse to provide single-entry point access to analysis tools and relevant visualisations.

The participant will learn how to navigate the resource and submit data based on a use-case scenario. We will report on our efforts to identify minimum metadata as well as trait definitions. Our aim is to demonstrate BIP's value and utility, both for single research groups and the global Brassica research and breeding community.