植物地图:将基因组,表型和环境数据连接起来,以促进植物弹性和生态进化洞察力
Brandon M Lind1,2, Irene Cobo-Simón1,3, Meghan Myles1
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
Genetics
|March 6, 2026
概括
气候变化和入侵物种威胁着植物. CartograPlant集成了多种植物数据,以更好地了解适应和告知保护策略.
科学领域:
- 植物学,生态学,进化生物学,生物信息学.
- 专注于植物对全球环境变化的反应.
- 多维生物数据集的整合.
背景情况:
- 气候变化和入侵物种对植物健康和生产力构成重大威胁.
- 了解植物适应需要整合人口,生理,生态和遗传数据.
- 目前的数据集成受到断开的来源,不一致的标准和有限的分析工具的阻碍.
研究的目的:
- 解决生物数据整合的关键差距,以了解植物对环境变化的反应.
- 为链接,分析和可视化多维植物数据集提供统一的框架.
- 支持保护,恢复和适应性管理的明智策略.
主要方法:
- 开发和使用CartograPlant,一个基于Web的交互式应用程序.
- 整合来自地理引用个体的基因型,表型和环境数据.
- 利用Tripal模块,NextFlow管道和扩展数据源来增强互操作性和分析.
主要成果:
- CartograPlant 便于对复杂的生态进化模式进行可视化和分析.
- 该平台允许探索空间和时间数据关系.
- 最近的更新改进了数据源,互操作性和分析工具.
结论:
- CartograPlant为研究人员,环保主义者和育种者提供了一个可扩展和灵活的平台.
- 该应用程序有助于理解和减轻全球变化对植物生物多样性的影响.
- 它加速了育种计划的弹性,并为农业和生态系统管理中的数据驱动决策提供了信息.
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