The ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community aims to establish a technical infrastructure and associated social practices to allow plant genotype-phenotype analysis, based on the widest available public datasets. By making data interoperable, in accordance with the FAIR principles, plant genotypic and phenotypic data will be easier to find, integrate and analyse. To this end, we have built on existing work, further developing MIAPPE, which provides a minimum information standard for plant phenotyping, and the Breeding API.

The Ensembl Genomes project (www.ensemblgenomes.org) provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of genome sequences from five taxonomic groups: bacteria, fungi, metazoa, plants, and protists. The Ensembl Plants database offers access to a rich variety of data including reference sequence, gene models, transcriptional data, genetic variation and comparative analyses; both between plant species, and other taxa. This session will offer an overview to the data within Ensembl Plants, and the various methods to access this data, with a focus on command-line access with the Ensembl REST API.

Galaxy has longed proved to be a scalable way to bring bioinformatics and bioinformatics training to a wide audience. Apollo, likewise, provides a scalable platform for genome annotation. We have integrated these services to provide a single, unified genome annotation platform to meet the annotation and curation needs of small communities.