DES-TOMATO: A Knowledge Exploration System Focused On Tomato Species

Abstract

Tomato is the most economically importanthorticultural crop used as a model to study plantbiology and particularly fruitdevelopment. Knowledge obtained from tomato researchinitiated improvements in tomato and, beingtransferrable to other such economically importantcrops, has led to a surge of tomato-related researchand published literature. We developed DES-TOMATOknowledgebase (KB) for exploration of informationrelated to tomato. Information exploration isenabled through terms from 26 dictionaries andcombination of these terms. To illustrate theutility of DES-TOMATO, we provide several exampleshow one can efficiently use this KB to retrieveknown or potentially novel information. DES-TOMATOis free for academic and nonprofit users and can beaccessed at http://cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/des_tomato/,using any of the mainstream web browsers, includingFirefox, Safari and Chrome.

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Scientific Reports
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