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Forest adaptation to climate change is at the heart of forestry research, as forests are directly affected by these disruptions that are likely to diminished their ecosystems as they loses diversity. Moreover, a significant portion of forest data holds precious heritage nature, as it is impossible to reproduce them due to the singular subject of study: trees, which have a particularly long life cycle. Plant research requires the integration of heterogeneous and dispersed datasets. However, these datasets are often structured in different formats that are not standardised and stored in various databases across the world. This makes it difficult to discover and integrate them in a way that allows them to be analysed and reused. To tackle this issue, FAIDARE has been designed. It simplify this work and maximise the visibility and reuse of forest research data, in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). FAIDARE is a data discovery portal developed for the european plant science community (ELIXIR). It allows the search of public data on plant biology from a federation of more than forty established data repositories over the world. It eases the findability and access of relevant datasets of most plant research data types, including genotyping, phenotyping and germplasms, via an easy-to-use web interface. It also provides a standard interface that can be accessed programmatically via web services conform to the Breeding API standard. Forest data from various sources are already accessible through FAIDARE. These data include the genetic resources conserved and distributed by the French forest Biological Resource Center ARTEMIS and their phenotypic and genotypic characterisation (currently 1,252 accessions from 3 species but more to come).The portal also hosts phenotypic data from the French network of comparative plantations and arboretums, GEN4X (1,232 trials genotype x environment and 8 arboretums observed over 60 years). Furthermore, FAIDARE includes project data of H2020 GenTree project, data from the French collection of forest genetic resources with in-situ and ex-situ conservation units and the sequencing and annotations of the oak and poplar genomes.
Creation date: 28 Feb 2025
eZ PublishPublication supervisor: A-F. Adam-Blondon
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