AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM ON BIORESOURCE COLLECTIONS OF THE FASO OF RUSSIA

• Published in: Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding
• Main Authors: S. A. Lashin, D. A. Afonnikov, M. A. Genaev, F. V. Kazantsev, E. G. Komyshev, E. A. Oschepkova, А. V. Petrov, D. A. Rasskazov, A. A. Smirnova, N. A. Kolchanov, С. А. Лашин, Д. А. Афонников, М. А. Генаев, Ф. В. Казанцев, Е. Г. Комышев, Е. А. Ощепкова, А. В. Петров, Д. А. Рассказов, А. А. Смирнова, Н. А. Колчанов
• Other Authors: Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, project 0324­2017­0050
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the RAS 2018
• Subjects: биоресурсная коллекция (БРК); informational portal; bioresource collection (BRC); информационный портал; Arctic
• Online Access: https://vavilov.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1520; https://doi.org/10.18699/VJ18.360

Biological collections play a huge role in studying biological diversity as systematic storages of biological materials in all combinations and forms. Collection materials have generally been formed over hundreds of years and may describe a vast number of samples counted by billions. Great efforts are made to preserve these materials, as well as to obtain more and more samples. The Russian Federation occupies a huge land area, has a long coastline and huge natural resources, a variety of natural and ecological zones. In this regard, its territory is unique from the viewpoint of biodiversity and development of biological collections. Currently, a large number of collections are being developed in Russia, but there are a number of problems associated, first of all, with the lack of an integrated information resource on bioresource collections (BRC). In order to support the development of scientific infrastructure, the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FASO of Russia) has been working on the development of unified approaches to the use of existing bioresource collections and the establishment of the integrated information system. The paper presents an information portal designed to provide uniform methods of work for all BRC organizations of the FASO of Russia: input, storage, updating and differentiated access to specific information about storage units and their characteristics. The information system “Bioresource Collections of Scientific Organizations” (IS BRC) has been developed as a Web­portal (www.biores.cytogen.ru) integrating databases on bioresource collections of the FASO of Russia and graphical user interface. Access control to the databases integrated into the IS BRC is performed through authorized program access for viewing records, their creation and editing on the basis of REST technology. The graphical user interface (GUI) provides the following features in accordance with the access rights: authorized access to the BRC database; viewing BRC database records; editing BRC database ...