WiPFIM: A digital platform for interlinking biocollections of wild plants, fruits, associated insects, and their molecular barcodes
Bonface Onyango, Robert Copeland, John Mbogholi, Mark Wamalwa, Caleb Kibet, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Kennedy Senagi
TL;DR
WiPFIM is a digital platform that connects data on wild plants, fruits, insects, and molecular barcodes to better understand fruit-insect interactions.
Contribution
The novel contribution is the development of a web-based platform integrating biodiversity data and molecular barcodes for fruit-insect interactions.
Findings
The platform integrates biocollections data with molecular barcodes from the BOLD database.
It provides a centralized online resource for understanding fruit-insect interactions.
The platform supports decision-making and innovation in biodiversity research.
Abstract
The current knowledge on insects feeding on fruits is limited, and some of the scarce existing data on the fruit‐associated insects are secluded within the host institutions. Consequently, their value is not fully realized. Moreover, in countries like Kenya, the integration of biocollections data within a digital framework has not been fully exploited. To address these gaps, this article presents a description of the development of a web‐based platform for data sharing and integrating biodiversity historical data of wild plants, fruits, associated insects, and their molecular barcodes (WiPFIM) while leveraging data science technologies. The barcodes corresponding to the biocollections data were retrieved from BOLD database. The platform is an online resource about fruit–insect interactions that can be of interest to a worldwide community of users and can be useful in building innovative…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIdentification and Quantification in Food · Plant and animal studies · Genetic diversity and population structure