Join us next Wed, March. 6th, at 12 PM CDT, for our monthly webinar. Cyril Pommier will talk about FAIR plant phenomics data management tools and guidelines from the ELIXIR and Emphasis European infrastructures. 

FAIR Plant Phenomics Data Management Tools and Guidelines from ELIXIR and Emphasis European Infrastructures
Plant phenomics data has been greatly facilitated over the past ten years at several levels: data standards to organize and describe data, databases for the management of the experiments, data repositories to ensure long-term accessibility supplemented by data portals to maximise findability and finally, guidelines to ease their usage. We will review the recent advances from joint initiatives involving two European infrastructures: ELIXIR (Life science data) and EMPHASIS (Plant phenomics). First, we will update the current status of MIAPPE (www.miappe.org), a data standard interoperable with the Breeding API that enables not only phenotyping experiment formalisation but also their linking with genotyping. We will also give an overview of its usage in generic data repositories such as Dataverse or Zenodo and their relation with experimental databases such as PHIS. Finding the right documentation to use those tools and standards is not always straightforward. The RDMKit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org/) is a guidelines portal that has been built to help researchers find the information subset they need. Through a dedicated section, such as the plant domain page (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org/), it shows the complementarity between standards and tools and provides the guidance needed for data management. Finally, we will also update the status of FAIDARE (https://urgi.versailles.inrae.fr/faidare/), a global data portal that indexes 30 databases using either BrAPI or a generic minimal format.