Grassroots
The Grassroots Genomics project (https://grassroots.tools/) aims to facilitate consistent approaches to generating, processing and disseminating public wheat datasets so that efforts in wheat research can be translated into community valuable resources thanks to effective sharing and re-use of data.The CyVerse UK computational pool also hosts a private Galaxy instance reserved to collaborators at BeCA in Kenya and runs its analyses.
Knetminer is a platform to make biological knowledge discovery faster and fun. It is based on the Knetminer web application and on curated knowledge graphs about many agriculture-related species. Recently, it has been extended to support human biology discovery. We use Cyverse UK resources to publish Knetminer data in machine-readable, FAIR-compliant forms, so that their usefulness is significantly extended to programmatic access and integration into systems like Jupyter. Concretely, Cyverse UK resources are used to run a SPARQL endpoint and Neo4j endpoints linked to Knetminer data sets. In both cases, we model the data after standard ontologies (eg, CROP, GeneOntology, TAIR) and schemas (eg, Bioschemas). Details are provided by our IB 2018 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30085931).