The DivSeek International Thematic Hub for Germinate aims to extend and promote ‘Germinate Hub’ as a common and scalable data infrastructure platform and community focal point suited to a wide range of users who are primarily studying collections of germplasm of different sizes and complexities.
Co-leads: Paul Shaw; Sebastian Raubach; Glenn Bryan; Joanne Russell and Robbie Waugh. The James Hutton Institute
Presentation slides (.pdf) from DivSeek AGM 2022, and video of presentation (starts from 30m12s)
2021 update on Activities:
- We are continuing discussions with groups who are interested in using Germinate (a continuation from the work detailed in our previous report which is attached) and are now working towards developing a more formalised Germinate “steering” group.
- We are developing online training materials that discuss Germinate (and other tools) that we have made public. As well as some talks which we will make publicly available.
- We continue to promote Germinate through our GitHub account https://github.com/germinateplatform
- Discussions with IPK about using their MIAPPE code with Germinate to allow us to develop MIAPPE compliance (ongoing)
- Continued updates to data for CPC potato database https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/germinate-cpc/ (continual updates as required
- Continued updated to data for Ethiopian barley database https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/germinate-barley-ethiopia (continual updates as required)
- Working now with new ionomics data which we are putting infrastructure into place to store and visualize. (Underway – prototype development)
- Feedback from users on what features they would like to see based on Germinate meetings within both the academic and commercial communities. (Always ongoing)
- Existing and upcoming projects which we are funded by the Crop Trust (Crop Trust CWR, Templeton Pre-Breeding and Innovative Finance) align with the DivSeek goals and are complimentary. (Ongoing highlighting and developing links between projects)