IPK Gatersleben Enables Transfer of Knowledge With Worldwide Access to Its Plant Bioinformatics Portal

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) wanted to integrate the data and applications distributed internationally and locally in heterogeneous systems. The challenge was to develop and integrate analysis applications that work on the basis of the integrated data and create a "Plant Bioinformatics Portal" for different bioinformatics issues relating to plants and provide central access to the data, analysis, and results. IPK worked with B.I.M.-Consulting to implement Oracle Database Enterprise Edition as the basis for the plant data warehouse to achieve consistency in the system architecture's technology as well as prepared, revised, and loaded information from individual data sources into the new system.