INRA-URLEG
BP 86510
21065 Dijon cedex
France
Mini biography
Vincent Savois has been working as a computer scientist for 2 years within the INRA Research Unit 102 Genetics and Ecophysiology of Grain Legumes. His activity focuses on network management and development of databases and bioinformatics applications.
Genetic Resources Integrated Information Systems at INRAVincent Savois, Christine Le Signor, Gérard Duc, Judith Burstin, J-Bernard Magnin-Robert, Richard Thompson
INRA-URLEG, BP 86510, 21065 Dijon cedex, France
vincent.savois@epoisses.inra.frSophie Durand, Delphine Samson, INRA URGI, 523 place des Terrasses de l'Agora, 91000 Evry, France
sophie.durand@versailles.inra.frFor more than a year INRA has been building SIReGal, its Plant Genetic Resources Management System. This database is designed to be universal for all plant species, professional, dedicated to INRA staff, its partners and everyone interested in plant genetic resources. At this stage, SIReGal contains mainly multicrop passport descriptors related to plant species.
Before the final release of SIReGal, a drosophila genetic resources application has been customized to manage legume genetic resources. LegumBase is a web application that is rather collection-management oriented: it provides a stock and commands management tool. Curators remain owners of their data and choose their data publicity policy. LegumBase also provides an accession and annotation search tool for curators and end users. It currently contains about 10,000 pea and Medicago truncatula accessions, most of them TILLING mutants. These accessions belong to two different genetic resource centres. More legumes curators should join soon the project.
Links between SIReGal and LegumBase will be provided by URGI extractor, a new tool dedicated to help transfer data between databases.
