FAIR Principles

The FAIR principles are a concept originated in data management, aiming to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
They serve as a flagship for promoting good data management practices, and are a key concept in the Open Science movement.

PHENO incorporates the FAIR principles in the sense that:
* Data is stored in a secure, open and accessible repository with version control.
* Enables data findability and reusability through descriptive metadata of phenotypic experiments using MIAPPE.
* It is interoplable with other data repositories through the use of the Breeding API (BRAPI).

MIAPPE

MIAPPE is a open, community driven, data standard designed to harmonize data from plant phenotyping experiments.
It provides templates in the form of excel spreadsheets, with metadata checklists that can be filled by researchers to adequately describe plant phenotyping experiments.
The current development version of MIAPPE v1.2 is under review by its community, and templates for this version can be found in MIAPPE templates repository.
More details about MIAPPE can be found in the MIAPPE Github page.

BRAPI

The Breeding API (BRAPI) is a standard developed and widely adopted by the plant breeding community to facilitate data exchange between different systems.
As a standardized RESTful web service API, BrAPI enables interoperability among agricultural databases and tools.
You can learn more about BrAPI through their website, documentation and GitHub page.

FAIDARE

FAIDARE is a specialized search engine for agronomic data, which includes plant phenotypic data.
Through the search box and with help of various filters, users can search data stored in any data repository that is BRAPI compliant, such as the case with PHENO.
For example, the user can specify the species, data type (e.g., Phenotyping Study), and a specific database (e.g., Ensembl Plants) to perform a custom query.
FAIDARE search engine

The FAIDARE search engine, showing the search box and filters for data search.

PHENO is a open software development project under the Apache-2.0 license.