The Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) is an international research consortium striving
to apply molecular biological advances to crop improvement for developing countries.
Central to its activities is the creation of a next generation global crop information platform
and network to share genetic resources, genomics, and crop improvement information. This
system is being designed based on a comprehensive scientific domain object model and associated
shared ontology. This model covers germplasm, genotype, phenotype, functional genomics,
and geographical information data types needed in GCP research. This paper provides
an overview of this modeling effort.
This paper is part of the special issue of OMICS on data standards.
