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This project is a germplasm selection software application based the elaboration of an application called "Explora", written in the R statistical language. The main purpose of Explora is to select a set of promising accessions from genebank collections that meet the interests of the user. Explora allows 1) selection of germplasm from big characterization and/or evaluation data sets; 2) consideration of more than one trait and trade-offs between different traits of interests; and 3) maximization of diversity for specific traits of interests.
See Getting Started for guidelines on how to install, configure and use the tool.
The initial development of Explora was commissioned by Maarten van Zonneveld (of the Bioversity International office in Costa Rica) to a software engineering consultant, Johann Ospina, in collaboration with Jacob van Etten (also of Bioversity-Costa Rica) who leads the Bioversity-hosted "Seeds4Needs" project funded under the CGIAR Climate Change Research Programme (CCAFS) .
The following may be taken as the current citation for Explora (manuscript 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 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, please 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