Integration and Provenance of Cereals Genotypic and Phenotypic Data

This paper presents the ongoing research on the design and development of a Provenance Managementcomponent, PM_MOMIS, for the MOMIS Data Integration System. PM_MOMIS aims to provide the provenancemanagement techniques supported by two of the most relevant data provenance systems, the Perm andTrio systems, and extends them by including the data fusion and conflict resolution techniquesprovided by MOMIS.PM_MOMIS functionalities have been studied and partially developed in the domain of genotypic andphenotypic cereal-data management within the CEREALAB project. The CEREALAB Data IntegrationApplication integrates data coming from different databases with MOMIS, with the aim of creating apowerful tool for plant breeders and geneticists. Users of CEREALAB played a major role in theemergence of real needs of provenance management in their domain.