A Prototype of a Rice Proteomics Data Consolidation and Visualization System

As rice is one of the primary sources of energy that has been consumed by 50% of the world’s population, there have been various rice research and development projects aiming to increase rice productivity, improve insect pest and disease resistance, support rice farming, etc. In this paper, we proposed a system prototype to enhance rice research and development processes, the study of proteins in rice. We viewed the integration of information retrieval and data visualization as an advocate for the research. In the research, one necessary task is to retrieve proteomic information from online databases. However, such a process heavily relies on human efforts to access and manually retrieve the information. Thousands of proteins are generally retrieved from proteomics research. This hinders the data analysis, interpretation, and visualization in the research task. To overcome such a problem, we proposed a prototype for a rice proteomic data consolidation and visualization system.