The Soybean Knowledge Base (SoyKB), a new online data resource was unveiled
by scientists at the University of Missouri. The database was developed to
allow greater collaboration among international researchers, scientists and
farmers to solve questions encountered in soybean research.

Trupti Joshi, assistant research professor in computer science said,
"Researchers essentially deposit their results from experiments into the
database, and high capacity computer systems crunch the numbers to help
determine results. Their experiments become a part of the bigger picture
allowing future researchers to narrow their own results."

Highly collaborative in nature, SoyKB uses computational methods developed
by computer science engineers that can be used for many disciplines, such as
health scoences, animal sciences, physics and genetics. It will provide the
digital infrastructure needed to store previously disregarded data to take
plant science to the next level.

[cafnrnews.com]