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

Year: 2017

Venue: Scientific Reports

Authors: Adil Salhi, Sonia Negrao, Magbubah Essack, Mitchell J. L. Morton, Salim Bougouffa, Rozaimi Mohamad Razali, Aleksandar Radovanovic, Benoit Marchand, Maxat Kulmanov, Robert Hoehndorf, Mark A. Tester, Vladimir B. Bajic

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.