BrAPI

Plant Breeding API

Synopsis

This is an implementation of the Breeding API for Drupal.
For API details, see here and there.

Version 7.x-3.x is not supported anymore. Version 4.0.0 supports BrAPI v1 and v2. It uses a different approach from 7.x-3.x and is only a BrAPI server implementation. For BrAPI client implementation, use External Entities BrAPI storage plugin.

Requirements

4.0.0

• galbar/jsonpath library (automatically added by composer).

7.x-3.x

• Tripal 7.x-2.x or 7.x-3.x module
• MCPD controlled vocabulary installed in Chado; however, if not present, the module will automatically install it. Just don't remove it from your Chado instance after the module installation! For a manual installation/update, you can download the ontology from the Crop Ontology website.

Credits

This project has been sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which funded the breeding API hackathons.

Plans

The version 4.0.0 is based on JSON files to know the BrAPI calls and data types related to a given BrAPI version. This approach provide a more flexible way to handle new BrAPI releases. It will only be a server implementation as xnttbrapi is the new client implementation (Drupal 9+).

It is "data-model/data-storage" decoupled, meaning that BrAPI data model can be mapped to any other Drupal data model that can be itself mapped to any type of storage (using amongst other External Entities extensions). In simple words, it means that your BrAPI data can be stored in an external database (MySQL, PostgreSQL), in flat files or even in other web services or a combination of all and it can still be served by this module if configure properly.