This is a germplasm selection software application based the further elaboration of an R statistical application called "Explora" initial development for which was commissioned to a software engineering consultant, Johann Ospina, by Maarten van Zonneveld (Bioversity-Costa Rica), in collaboration with Jacob van Etten (also of Bioversity-Costa Rica) who leads the Bioversity "Seeds4Needs" project funded under the Climate Change (CCAFS) CGIAR Research Programme.
Conversion of the software to a full R statistical package and some additional user interface refinements were undertaken in 2014 by Dr. Richard Bruskiewich of Crop / STAR Informatics, Canada.
Detailed instructions for installation of the Explora package are available on the main Github project wiki at https://github.com/bioversity/germplasm-selection-tool/wiki.
Unofficial scientific publication about Explora (in preparation by Maarten):
van Zonneveld M, Ospina J, Petz M, Meckelmann S, Rios L, Libreros D, Ramirez M.
"Explora: a multiple-trait selection tool to identify promising
crop germplasm for food security and high-value product development”.
This software package is being designated "Open Source" under similar terms as the R Statistical software framework, that is, the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3, 29 June 2007). See the LICENSE file in the root directory of this project for the legal details of the GPL v3.
For further details on the project, contact:
Maarten van Zonneveld, PhD Associate Scientist in Diversity Analysis for Conservation and Use Bioversity International c/o CATIE 7170 Turrialba, Costa Rica Email: m.vanzonneveld AT cgiar.org