Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference

January 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

The International Rice Information System (IRIS): An Evolving Resource Cross-Linking Rice Germplasm, Phenotype, Genomics And Genotype Information

Richard M. Bruskiewich^1,2,3 , Arllet M. Portugal¹ , Alexander B. Cosico¹ , Gloria Despacio-Reyes¹ , Victor Jun M. Ulat¹ , Clarissa I. Pimentel¹ , Ma. Teresa R. Ulat¹ , Locedie Mansueto^1,2 , Sergio Gregorio^1,3 , William Eusebio¹ , Michael J. Mendoza¹ , May Ann B. Sallan¹ , Lilibeth Sison¹ , Roniela Q. Herrera¹ , Warren Vicent E. Constantino¹ , Ramil Mauleon^1,3 , Asil Gerard Sylvester^1,3 , Ruaraidh Sackville-Hamilton¹ , Hei Leung¹ , Kenneth L. McNally¹ , Thomas Metz¹ , Christopher Graham McLaren¹

¹  International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Los Baņos, Laguna, Philippines

²  University of the Philippines at Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

³  University of the Philippines at Los Baņos, Los Baņos, Laguna, Philippines

The International Rice Information System (IRIS, www.iris.irri.org) is the rice implementation of the open source International Crop Information System (ICIS, www.icis.cgiar.org) project, a comprehensive platform for the management and integration of germplasm, genotype and phenotype information for any crop, under development for many years through a global partnership of crop scientists and informatics developers. Our presentation will cover:

• The current scope of the system spanning fully integrated management of crop genetic resources, genomics and breeding information, including seed inventory.


• New facilities for the capture, representation, analysis, integration and publication of high-throughput crop genomic and molecular variation (genotype) data, with an emphasis on ontology-driven annotation of data.


• A novel Java language port of the system providing several significant functional enhancements over earlier systems, including novel specialist views to the system in the form of newly developed stand-alone applications and an enhanced, next generation web portal.


• State-of-art internet protocols and technology now embedded into the system to support a globally distributed community of ICIS and non-ICIS databases.