Plant Breeding Databases

NCSU Graduate Program

• Agrobase (Agronmix)
  • Well-established (1990) commercial database (Windows, Windows server, SQL).
• ICIS (CGIAR)
• ICIS is an Open Community of Practice; it is not a plug and play solution to the crop information problem. All partners in ICIS contribute intellectual capital in designing and testing, and in curating public and private data; some contribute funds to support programmers to improve ICIS.
• Breeders Training Course for ICIS
• Integrated Breeding Platform
  • A project of the Generation Challenge Program of the CGIAR system. Involves tool development to improve the operation of plant breeding programs. Uses open standards such as web browsers, R-project software, and Excel spreadsheets (Windows, Linux, Mac, web).
• Phenom-Networks
  • New commercial database system using standards (web browser, SQL, Apache, R-project, ICIS) to be flexible and expandable.