DES-TOMATO: A Knowledge Exploration System Focused On Tomato Species.

Journal: Scientific reports
Published Date: Jul 20, 2017

Abstract

Tomato is the most economically important horticultural crop used as a model to study plant biology and particularly fruit development. Knowledge obtained from tomato research initiated improvements in tomato and, being transferrable to other such economically important crops, has led to a surge of tomato-related research and published literature. We developed DES-TOMATO knowledgebase (KB) for exploration of information related to tomato. Information exploration is enabled through terms from 26 dictionaries and combination of these terms. To illustrate the utility of DES-TOMATO, we provide several examples how one can efficiently use this KB to retrieve known or potentially novel information. DES-TOMATO is free for academic and nonprofit users and can be accessed at http://cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/des_tomato/, using any of the mainstream web browsers, including Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

Authors

  • Adil Salhi
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • Sonia Negrão
    School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Magbubah Essack
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • Mitchell J L Morton
    Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • Salim Bougouffa
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
  • Rozaimi Razali
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
  • Aleksandar Radovanovic
    a King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) , Thuwal , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Benoit Marchand
    e New York University , Abu Dhabi , UAE.
  • Maxat Kulmanov
    Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
  • Robert Hoehndorf
    Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 KAUST, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. robert.hoehndorf@kaust.edu.sa.
  • Mark Tester
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
  • Vladimir B Bajic
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

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