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A plant resource and experiment management system based on the Golm Plant Database as a basic tool for omics research

Karin I Köhl1 email, Georg Basler2 email, Alexander Lüdemann1 email, Joachim Selbig2 email and Dirk Walther1 email

Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany

University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

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Plant Methods 2008, 4:11doi:10.1186/1746-4811-4-11

Published: 21 May 2008

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Additional file 2:

Access. Diagram displaying the entity-relation-model of the ACCESS database used by the plant cultivation service. Upper half displays tables to describe standard cultivation protocols and their link to the LIMS. In this part, the cultivation steps and the containers, substrates, fertilizers and nutrient solutions used in these steps are documented. The lower half shows tables containing information on plant cultivation sites (locations), namely on the reservation status and on the climate conditions between defined dates and on pesticides that have been applied in these locations on a defined date. Objects are depicted as rectangles containing the respective attributes, foreign key relations as arrows. Primary key attributes are underlined.

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NautilusOracle. LIMS objects representing plants, plant lines, cultures and samples. Objects are depicted as rectangles containing the respective attributes, foreign key relations as arrows. Primary key attributes are underlined and denoted by PK, foreign keys by FK1 to FK10. Mandatory attributes are printed bold.

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Samplecomposer. The zip-file contains the source code and a demo version of the sample composer and the controlled vocabulary for organ and treatment as csv files.

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