PGP

The Plant Genomics and Phenomics (PGP) Research Data Repository is an initiative that has been established to publish plant research data to accelerate yield gains and overcome emerging crop productivity bottlenecks. PGP is an infrastructure designed to make valuable digital assets accessible to the scientific community by offering plant research data management services. It is hosted at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, using e!DAL as software infrastructure and a Hierarchical Storage Management System as data archival backend.

In plant genomics and phenomics, accessing this wealth of plant diversity requires characterizing this material using state-of-the-art genomic, phenomic, and molecular technologies and releasing subsequent research data via a long-term stable, open-access portal. Although several international consortia and public resource centers offer plant research data management services, valuable digital assets remain unpublished and thus inaccessible to the scientific community.

PGP fills this gap by comprehensively publishing plant research data, including cross-domain datasets that are not published in central repositories due to their size or unsupported data scope, such as image collections from plant phenotyping and microscopy, unfinished genomes, genotyping data, visualizations of morphological plant models, data from mass spectrometry, software, and documents.

PGP aims to comply with the FAIR data principles, which are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. After an internal review, data are published as citable digital object identifiers and a core set of technical metadata is registered at DataCite. The used e!DAL-embedded Web frontend generates for each dataset a landing page and supports interactive exploration.