BIOGENRES

BioGenRes: the genetic resources in agro-food research of the CNR-DiSBA The CNR Department of Bio-Agrifood Sciences (DiSBA) among its targets includes defense, knowledge and exploitation of genetic resources of plants, animals and microorganisms involved in various Agrifood fields. The CNR Institutes which refer to the Department hold important collections of biological material consisting of plants, animals and microorganisms. Totally they are more than 100,000 accessions, among which 80% is material collected in regions indicated by Italian law 191/2009. The objective of the project is the biological and informatic organization of data contained in the collections of DiSBA genetic resources, through the use of modern bioinformatics technologies. The achievement of that target might produce the important result to network Italian genetic resources, making them usable not only by researchers, but also by citizens, stake-holders, public and private institutions, allowing the scientific and operational foundations to establish a national network for Agro-biodiversity. Available were often scattered among different groups, in many cases unstructured, and in no way integrated with each other. Therefore they have been included in this bioinformatics platform able to structure and integrate data from various collections, making them more expendable in analytical protocols of several scientific and applicative fields.