About Us

Our Mission

Our aim is to make Brassica crop data openly accessible and available in a standardised and well-described manner. We collaborate with Elixir, Bioschemas.org and Biosamples to make the hosted data findable and interoperable with analysis tools and re-usable among the scientific community.

Brassica Information Portal Team

• Wiktor Jurkowski Earlham Institute, www: http://www.earlham.ac.uk/wiktor-jurkowski
• Annemarie Eckes Earlham Institute, www: http://www.earlham.ac.uk/annemarie-hildegard-eckes
• Carlos Horro Earlham Institute, www: http://www.earlham.ac.uk/carlos-horro
• Sarah Dyer Earlham Institute, email: contact address
• Tomasz Gubała Spectrum IT
• Tomasz Szymczyszyn Spectrum IT
• Piotr Nowakowski Spectrum IT
• Graham King Southern Cross University

Brassica Community

• Brassica.info
• CropStoreDB
• brassicadb
• York Oilseed Rape Knowledgebase
• Brassica Genome Gateway
• The OREGIN project
• The RIPR project
• Brassica tools

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council as part of the BBSRC Renewable Industrial Products from Rapeseed (RIPR) Programme (BB/L002124/1) and was strategically funded by the BBSRC, Institute Strategic Programme Grant (BB/J004669/1) at the Earlham Institute (formerly The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich).

The underlying database schema is derived from the CropStoreDB schema ver.7 (Love et al 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2012.01120.x ). Incorporated vocabularies include Gramene taxonomy (release 26.04.2013), plant ontology (release 19.05.2016) and trait ontology (release 12.11.2015), used under Planteome and Gramene projects licenses.