We have continued enhancing the content and features of the MGIS website.
As previously mentionned and following the publication of Collecting and managing in situ banana genetic resources information ( Musa spp.) using online resources and citizen science in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (May 2024), we are actively expanding the curated in situ data. This work, led by Christophe Jenny...
More details...Foreword:
Dear MGIS Users,
We continue to improve the content and the features of the MGIS web site. Please, see below what has happened since July 2022.
Since July 2022, no new accessions have been introduced to the ITC. However we continue to update the passport data of the existing accessions according to feedback from routine Field Verification and routine operation on data checking. This concerns the classification,country of origin, availability of...
More details...Dear MGIS Users,
We continue to improve the content and the features of the MGIS web site. Please, see below what has happened since January 2022.
A total of 11 new accessions introduced at ITC in 2021 are now maintained at ITC, increasing the number of active accessions up to 1,693. This material comes from two different countries:
Eight accessions from ...
More details...Dear MGIS Users,
Originally planned on December 2021, we provide this update in January 2022 that fix a few issues on data loading. Please see below the updates and new features for the MGIS website.
A total of 58 new accessions have been introduced at ITC in 2021. This material comes from different countries:
Dear MGIS Users,
It is almost the end of the first quarter of 2021 and so here is some news about MGIS data and features.
We spent time cleaning up morphological characterization and agronomic data stored in the database. In total 14,640 data were updated out of 225,970 characterization records.
We also updated 145 CARBAP plantains with Characterization & Evaluation data extracted and translated from the Catalog of Plantains...
More details...Hi everyone,
As scheduled, we are releasing each quarter a MGIS web site which includes new features and data updates. This time the highlight is an accession filter using morpho-taxonomic descriptors. More details can be found here.
MGIS content is constantly enriched to improve documentation of the Musa germplasm, with a focus on the Bioversity International Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC) in Belgium. Eleven new accessions have been added to the ITC collection, among which 7 accessions that were collected during a 16-day in October 2016 on the islands of Bougainville, Buka and Sohano in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), report available here. It also includes the first...
More details...We are continuing to enrich the content of MGIS and add new features not only to better document the Musa germplasm but also to facilitate the data management of data provided by our partners. For the moment, curators can only manage passport data, but soon will be able to manage characterization data.
Last summer we conducted a survey on the MGIS website and we appreciate those who answered our questions. This new website release reflects some of the expectations of our users as expressed in the survey. More information on the survey and its results can be found...
More details...We are continuing to enrich the content of MGIS as well as adding new features. We have now 29 collections providing data to MGIS for a total of 6424 accessions.
The latest release includes additional Passport Data from new partners who are signatory of the MGIS Data sharing Agreement (DSA). We would like to thank for their confidence in providing their accession information the following:
We are continuing to enrich the content of MGIS as well as adding new features for end users.
The latest release includes additional Passport Data from new partners who are signatory of the MGIS Data sharing Agreement (DSA). We would like to thank Bangladesh through the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Cambodia through the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and Malaysia through the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (...
More details...The web interface for the management of SNP markers was upgraded with the version 2 of GIGWA. This new interface is faster and should offer a better user experience (https://www.crop-diversity.org/mgis/gigwa).
We thank Guilhem Sempéré (CIRAD) for a fruitful collaboration on this projet.
Please don't hesitate to share any feedback.
The MGIS team
More details...Based on user feedback and the objective to provide more and better information on Musa Genetic Resources, we are releasing a new version of MGIS.
In the framework of MusaNet, we are happy to announce that 25 of the estimated 60 worldwide Musa collections signed the MGIS Data Sharing Agreement (DSA). This new release offers access to Passport Data provided by ARI (Tanzania), BPI (Philippines),...
More details...We are please to annonce a new major release of the MGIS website. Among the main new features are a new homepage, a publication module and a module for management of high-throughput genotyping data from Next Generation sequencing data. MGIS is now compliant with the breeding API for machine readable standardized data exchange.
We are also glad that 9 additional collections signed the Data Sharing Agreement and will be providing soon data for the next releases.
Data content: 3697 accessions managed in 12 collections...
More details...The MGIS development team at Bioversity and its many partners are pleased to publish a new release of MGIS. The purpose of MGIS is to provide the most comprehensive information related to Musa Germplasm accessions maintained in the global in vitro collection at Bioversity's International Transit Centre in Leuven, Belgium.
A critical improvement that needed to be made was to ensure due recognition and acknowledgement of the many and different Data providers on which MGIS depends for data quality and completion. In order to do so, Bioversity, on behalf of MGIS, developed in...
More details...