The Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP) is a data publication infrastructure to comprehensively publish multi-domain plant research data. It is hosted at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany. The repository hosts

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(DOI) citable datasets that are not being published in public repositories because of their volume or data scope. PGP enables the publication of gigabyte-scale datasets and is registered as a research data repository at FAIRSharing.org, re3data.org and

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as a valid EU

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open data archive. PGP fulfills the

FAIR data FAIR data is data which meets the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). The acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal '' Scientific Data'' by a consortium of sc ...

principles—findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable. The PGP repository was created using the e!DAL software infrastructure and applies an

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approach to bring and connect data to infrastructure.

Data Content

All submitted and approved data are hosted at IPK Gatersleben and are stably citable in the long-term by a DOI. All datasets are linked in

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and indexed by all major web search engines. The PGP repository is accepted by data journals such as

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and Nature Scientific Data as a recommended data repository. All published datasets may be explored in the PGP data report application or retrieved using the

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search web application.

Data Submission

The PGP repository accepts submissions from the European plant science community. The web-based submission tool for small datasets and

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desktop submission tool for gigabyte scale datasets use the

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(AAI). A review process ensures the technical quality of data submissions.

German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure

The PGP repository is a part of the service portfolio of the ''German Crop BioGreenformatics Network'' (GCBN) node of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure.

References

External links

official repository website

official e!DAL website

official website of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
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