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PhytoOracle: Scalable, modular phenomics data processing pipelines.

Emmanuel M Gonzalez¹, Ariyan Zarei², Nathanial Hendler¹

¹School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.

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PhytoOracle (PO) offers scalable, modular pipelines for processing large phenomics datasets from various sensors. This advanced system improves data efficiency and enables multi-modal data fusion to bridge the genotype-phenotype gap.

Keywords:

data management distributed computing high performance computing image analysis morphological phenotyping phenomics physiological phenotyping point cloud analysis

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Plant phenomics
Computational biology
Agricultural technology

Background:

Increasing phenomics data volume and dimensionality necessitate scalable processing solutions.
Current pipelines lack modularity, extensibility, and distributed processing capabilities across sensor types.

Purpose of the Study:

Develop PhytoOracle (PO), a suite of modular, scalable pipelines for processing diverse field phenomics data.
Improve data processing efficiency, reproducibility, and enable multi-modal data fusion.
Address the genotype-phenotype gap through a multi-system approach.

Main Methods:

Integrated open-source distributed computing frameworks for parallel processing.
Utilized standalone containerized pipeline components for transferability and reproducibility.
Processed RGB, thermal, PSII chlorophyll fluorescence images, and 3D point clouds from Field Scanalyzer and drone data.

Main Results:

PhytoOracle demonstrated efficient end-to-end processing of large phenomics datasets.
Achieved high repeatability values (0.39-0.95) for various plant traits from Field Scanalyzer and drone data.
Successfully processed 9,270 RGB images in 235 minutes and 39,678 PSII images in 13 minutes on 1,024 cores.

Conclusions:

PhytoOracle provides a modular, extensible, and reproducible framework for processing large-scale phenomics data.
The system enables efficient data fusion across multiple sensor modalities.
PO facilitates a deeper understanding of genotype-phenotype relationships by integrating diverse data streams.