1. GRIN-Global Project Discussion & Demonstration July 27, 2010 Presenters Gary Kinard Mark Bohning Martin Reisinger

2. Today’s Presentation Overview of the GRIN-Global (GG) project Demonstration of the Public Website Discussion

3. The Need for GRIN-Global Many national genebanks lack effective information technology for documenting & managing collections electronically

4. Why Switch From GRIN? Genebanks interested in adopting GRIN were challenged by software licensing fees

5. GRIN…GRIN-Global In 2008, the Global Crop Diversity Trust awarded ARS a 3-year, $1.4 million grant to address global germplasm information management needs

6. GRIN…GRIN-Global USDA/ARS is devoting more than $1 million of in-kind support to the project Bioversity International will support the deployment of GRIN-Global internationally

7. GRIN-Global Project Mission Create… a new, scalable version of GRIN …powerful, flexible, easy-to-use PGR information management system an effective global network of genebanks Encourage… the use of PGR resources by researchers, breeders, and farmers (producers)

8. Customer Input Public Bulletin Board for 18 months Fall 2009 survey – 444 surveys completed by international and U.S. respondents – Sent more than 600 U.S. CGC email invitations Feedback from presentations

9. Customer Input Survey respondents identified themselves as: researcher / breeder – 66% policy maker – 8% curators – 27% genebank staff – 21% grower / farmer – 8% (Multiple responses were allowed)

10. GRIN-Global Deliverables Curator ToolPublic Website Designed for: inserting / updating / deleting data searching for, and ordering germplasm Users:genebanks / curators researchers / breeders / farmers / policy makers… Requires:WindowsA browser

11. Testing: Bioversity & U.S. select testers 12/2009 3/2010 7/2010 8/2010 12/2010 5/2011 12/2011 3/2012 GG RC 1 Schema analysis / revisions Public Website RC1 GG – GRIN-Global RC – Release Candidate TtT – Train the Trainer GG RC 2 GG v1.0 Gap Analysis International Deployment Code Optimization Broad U.S. Evaluation U.S. Deployment GRIN Migration  GG v2.0 TtT 1 TtT 2 GRIN-Global Timeline

12. Public Website Demo

13. Discussion

14. An International Project to Develop a Global Plant Genebank Information Management System P. Bretting, M. Mackay, L. Guarino, G. Kinard, C. Gardner, P. Cyr, M. Bohning, Q. Sinnott, G. Emberland, M. Millard, J. Postman, K. Hummer, T. Ayala-Silva, T. Franco, B. Weaver, R. Little, J. Chung, L. Gu, M. Reisinger

15. Resources GRIN-Global wiki: www.grin-global.org www.grin-global.org Feedback email: grin-global.feedback@ars-grin.gov grin-global.feedback@ars-grin.gov