RDA Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group Outcomes RDA Outputs P5 9 th March 2015, San Diego

2  The wheat research community is facing many societal challenges  Wheat is the most widely grown crop in the world and provides 20% of the daily protein and food calories in the human diet.  Wheat is the 2 nd most important food crop in the developing world after rice.  In recent years, wheat production levels have not satisfied demand  With a predicted world population of 9 billion in 2050, the demand for wheat is expected to increase by 60% compared with 2010  To meet this demand, mean annual yield increases must rise from the current level of 1% ( ) to 1.6% ( ) The context

3  How foster a best use of genetic, genomic and phenotypic data in fundamental and applied wheat science to increase the sustainable production of wheat in the future given that  A variety of new technologies are producing an important quantity of heterogeneous data  Wheat related information and data systems are diverse  There is a lack of data harmonization and standards The problem Interoperability of all wheat related data is a top priority

4  Interoperability of Wheat related data based on  A common set of metadata standards, data formats and vocabularies  Shared guidelines for describing, representing and linking data  Tools that encourage the adoption of the recommendations and guidelines  !  Build on existing and valuable assets  Build on requirements derived from real needs identified by the Wheat research community Goals & Objectives of the WG

5 Results Surveys State of the art: metadata, data formats (target: Wheat research community) Study of the existing Wheat related Ontologies and Vocabularies (target: developers, curators and managers of ontologies and vocabularies) Workshops Analysis 1 of the existing metadata, data formats and vocabularies Recommendations Identifying actions to conduct in order to improve the current level of interoperability Collecting interoperability use cases Implementation Interactive cookbook: recommendations + guidelines A repository of Wheat related linked vocabularies (Bioportal) Prototype - Assess the gain of interoperability based on collected use cases

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8  Target users  Wheat related data managers and database developers: guidance for determining formats for representing and storing wheat data  Wheat related researchers: guidance for documenting Wheat data  Software developers designing semantic-based search tools: guidance for choosing specific controlled vocabularies, ontologies to base on  Impacts  Improved data discovery, reusability and interoperability  Standardization and harmonization of data will reduce variability and increase relevance of Wheat data related search tools. Expected Impact

9  The main strategy consist in reusing the outputs of the wg as a building block for the Wheat Initiative Wheat Information System (WheatIS)  The WheatIS brings together the major wheat bioinformatics platforms and experts and aims to create a framework for the establishment of a global Wheat Information System  Ongoing project: A virtual research environment (VRE) for data management and analysis which should contribute to addressing the challenge of food security and agriculture sustainability.  The expected outcomes include Standards and guidelines for data sharing and data integration. Adoption

10  Agenda for the next 6 months  Finalize the guidelines  Finalize the Bioportal dedicated to Wheat related ontologies  Realize a prototype Conclusions & Next Steps