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title: "BreedBase Example"
author: "Khaled Al-Shamaa"
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## QBMS
This R package assists breeders in linking data systems with their analytic pipelines, a crucial step in digitizing breeding processes. It supports querying and retrieving phenotypic and genotypic data from systems like [EBS](https://ebs.excellenceinbreeding.org/), [BMS](https://bmspro.io/), [BreedBase](https://breedbase.org), and [GIGWA](https://github.com/SouthGreenPlatform/Gigwa2) (using [BrAPI](https://brapi.org/) calls). Extra helper functions support environmental data sources, including [TerraClimate](https://www.climatologylab.org/terraclimate.html) and FAO [HWSDv2](https://gaez.fao.org/pages/hwsd) soil database.

## BreedBase
[Breedbase](https://breedbase.org/) is a comprehensive breeding management and analysis software. It can be used to design field layouts, collect phenotypic information using tablets, support the collection of genotyping samples in a field, store large amounts of high density genotypic information, and provide Genomic Selection related analyses and predictions.

## BrAPI
The Breeding API ([BrAPI](https://brapi.org/)) project is an effort to enable interoperability among plant breeding databases. BrAPI is a standardized RESTful web service API specification for communicating plant breeding data. This community driven standard is free to be used by anyone interested in plant breeding data management.

>*You can find a set of Breedbase based servers available for several crops and accessible with no authentication required are listed at the BrAPI website on the following page under the group of **Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)**, discovery and innovation in the life sciences: [https://brapi.org/servers](https://brapi.org/servers).*

## _Example_
```r
# load the QBMS library
library(QBMS)

# Cassava BreedBase server
set_qbms_config("https://cassavabase.org/", no_auth = TRUE, engine = "breedbase")

# login_breedbase("username", "password")

# list supported crops in the current BreedBase server
list_crops()

# list all breeding programs in the selected crop
list_programs()

# select a breeding program by name
set_program("IITA")

# list all folders in the selected program
list_trials()

# select a specific folder by name, choose the last/final folder that contains 
# your experiments in any nested folder structure
set_trial("20_Abuja")

# list all studies/experiments in the selected folder
list_studies()

# select a specific study/experiment by name
set_study("20NCRP12yrtAB")

# another option, select a specific study/experiment by location name (first match)
# studies <- list_studies()
# set_study(studies[studies$locationName == "Abuja", "studyName"][1])

# retrieve general information, data, and germplasm list 
# of the selected study/experiment
info <- get_study_info()
data <- get_study_data()

# not effecient call at the BreedBase backend BrAPI endpoint
germplasm <- get_germplasm_list()

# get observation variable ontology in the selected study/experiment
ontology <- get_trial_obs_ontology()

# replace long trait names with short ones from the ontology 
fields <- colnames(data) 

for (i in 1:length(fields)) {
  j <- which(ontology$name %in% fields[i])
  if (length(j) > 0) fields[i] <- ontology$synonyms[[j]][1]
}

colnames(data) <- fields

# retrieve all studies/experiments data in the selected folder
MET <- get_trial_data()

```