Development of a Relational Interactive Plant Outreach Database for Increased Efficiency of Data Integration and Access
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Above: Biomass Production Chamber (Courtesy of NASA)
Left: Brassica in clinostats inside environmental Growth Chamber (Courtesy of Thomas Vaughn)
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Project Description
Given the volume of data that was collected from plant research conducted in the Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), it became necessary to build a database that will be used to organize the BPC data. This database will be used in Educational Outreach for comparison by researchers and to store different formats of plant data. It will also be used to organize data collected while experimenting on Fibrous Ion Exchange Resin Substrate (FIERS).
Project
• Biomass Production Chamber (BPC) paper spreadsheets are written to Excel files which are then formatted with the Electronic Data Deliverable (EDD) and uploaded into the database.
• Experiments conducted with v.2003 and v.2004 of Fibrous Ion Exchange Resin Substrate (FIERS) are done in Clinostats inside the Environmental Growth Chamber and the data collected is uploaded into the database.
Above: (Left) Harvesting plants grown with FIERS - Courtesy of Adam Santone.
(Right) Looking at brassica pods under microscope - Courtesy of Adam Santone.
Above: Electronic Data Deliverable (EDD) Sheet (Courtesy of William Payne)
Above: Database tables with parameters.
Above: Concept for Website Interface (Courtesy of Chinyere Nwokeabia)
Author: Chinyere Nwokeabia, CBS SLSTP 2004 Trainee
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Principal Investigators:
Peter Chetirkin, Dynamac Corporation
William Payne, Matrix Corporation
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