Source: Naylor R. and Battisti D. 2008 Slides courtesy of Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust No food for our grandchildren

First find your database - key tip is to know which institute specializes in the crop you want

Now where is the database?

Next keep looking for your database......

Some databases can be searched online

And where is resistance to casava mosaic virus ???

What does this mean??

Ahh but I don’t know the name....

• No incentives to sharing data • Databases don’t support discussion and

collaboration •  Terminology differences mean data won’t mix •  Structured data and text treated separately

Incentives: attribution, ease of use.

Google Fusion Tables

Suggest visualization

Incentives: recognize data types, visualize easily

Collaborate but maintain control where needed.

Merge tables across organizations.

Discover

Manage, Analyze, Combine

Extract Publish Data