Goals
The data infrastructure or ‘Resilience Hub’ creates an extensive data infrastructure which encompasses data and tools related to the topic of crop resilience. It facilitates and enhances all the work within CropXR aimed at improving crop resilience. All CropXR partners can use it to store, process, share and access data. In the future, the Resilience Hub and accompanying data and AI technology should be made available to a community of experts around the world. The realisation of the future Resilience Hub has already started with today’s storing and structuring of all data that is generated within CropXR.
Approach
All data is stored based on the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Furthermore, the team develops the Resilience Hub in an agile way. It integrates already existing tools and knowledge of infrastructures that have proven to function properly into the design of the Resilience Hub. CropXR generates data on a large scale and creates models to analyse this data. By integrating all the knowledge obtained, the models created, and data generated, the Resilience Hub can ignite even more top-notch insights. Moreover, it empowers researchers. They can utilize data from a wealth of sources that includes the latest technology such as Machine Learning and AI.
Activities
The work of the team includes data governance, IT infrastructure, the use of AI and the implementation of standards. Expertise groups promote the practical use of standards and metadata. Furthermore, the team collaborates with existing parties that engage in standardization. Together with a Data user group, a Data Code of Conduct has been compiled. An external storage platform is used for the IT infrastructure. In addition, AI is deployed for the collection of metadata. This decreases the administrative workload of researchers. The requirements and possibilities to access the hub by others outside the consortium will be further developed in the coming years.
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Team
Work package leader Auke Damstra, Technology Director CropXR
Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Professor Data Analysis, UvA
Balu Estamsetty, Data Architect, TU Delft
Bart Rentenaar, Manager Smart Data Platform, Enza Zaden – industrial partner
Basten Snoek, Assistant Professor, UU
Bianca Cosma, PhD machine learning in crop resilience, TU Delft
Camillo Berenos, Research Director, Dümmen Orange – industrial partner
Christoph Lofi, Assistant Professor, TU Delft
Dick de Ridder, Professor Bioinformatics and AI, WUR
Erwin van Arkelen, Team Lead Information Management R&D, Rijk Zwaan – industrial partner
Eva Valencia Lenero, UU
Geo Velikkakam James, Team Lead Computational Biology, Rijk Zwaan – industrial partner
Guido van den Ackerveken, Professor and chair of Translation Plant Biology & Scientific Director CropXR, UU
Johan Bijleveld, Manager Enterprise Architecture & Security, Enza Zaden – industrial partner
Kirsten ten Tusscher, Professor of Computational Developmental Biology, UU
Lidija Berke, Group Leader Bioinformatics and Software Development, Genetwister Technologies – industrial partner
Marcel Reinders, Professor of Bioinformatics, TU Delft
Marcel van Verk, Team Leader Crop Data Science, KeyGene – industrial partner
Melissa Spitteler, Innovation coordinator, TU Delft
Monica Garcia Gomez, Assistant professor, UU
Mon-Ray Shao, Project Lead Artificial Intelligence, UU
Remco Ursem, Program Leader Bioinformatics, HZPC – industrial partner
Saulo Aflitos, Senior Researcher Bioinformatics, Bejo Zaden – industrial partner
Sören Wacker, Senior HPC Research Engineer, TU Delft
Thomas Abeel, Associate Professor, TU Delft