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High Performance Networking
in Agricultural Research
Marco van den Berg
William G. Padolina
International Rice Research Institute
http://irri.org
Exciting times in rice research
Simultaneous revolutions in biology, communications,
and computational power
Bioinformatics
Vast arrays of
data generated
worldwide
Remote data storage and
analysis capacities
universally accessible
Remote computational
power generates new
generation of questions
and applications
Global Rice Science Partnership
Omics
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Genomics, Proteomics, etc.
2005 - Rice genome sequence published
2006 - SUB1 gene identified
2009 - Swarna-SUB1 variety developed
2010 - Released to farmers
2011 - Start sequencing 10,000 varieties
(500 TeraBytes raw data 4 TB net data)
• 2012 - Drought-tolerant gene
• 201? - Sequenced >108,000 rice varieties
Rice Sequencing Consortium (2005)
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences/Institute of the Society
for Techno-innovation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Japan
The Institute for Genomic Research USA Chinese Academy of
Sciences China INRA-URGV France Cirad-Amis France The University
of Arizona USA Academia Sinica Taiwan National Cheng Kung
University Taiwan National Yang-Ming University University of Delhi
India Indian Agricultural Research Institute Rutgers University USA
National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology Republic
of Korea Rice Gene Discovery Unit Kasetsart University Thailand
Centro de Genomica e Fitomelhoramento Brazil John Innes Centre UK
Washington University USA University of Wisconsin USA Center for
Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan National Institute
of Genetics Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology Japan National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Japan Medical Research Institute Japan Biological Informatics
Consortium Japan Cornell University USA Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory USA McGill University Canada York University Canada
International Rice Research Institute Philippines Graduate School of
Natural Sciences Nagoya City University Japan Brookhaven National
Laboratory USA
DNA Data Transfer
Building a bigger picture with advanced communications links
Dr. Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute):
This is a milestone that is key for the next phase of
exploiting the genes that have been accumulated over
millennia in the many rice strains available at IRRI and in
gene banks at other rice breeding institutes worldwide
Dr Ken McNally (IRRI)
Tens of gigabytes of data generated in the initial study
were shared with collaborators and published on external
databases to make them available to researchers around
the world. Data volumes will rise dramatically in the future
Global Rice Information Gateway
Real-time crop information
 medium-term supply and demand outlook
 policy briefs
 comprehensive rice data sets at all levels
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Rice monitoring and forecasting system for each
country will be developed by combining techniques
such as satellite-based remote sensing with
weather and crop modeling, and econometric
modeling.
Heavy Traffic
European Space Agency ENVISAT
2011: 200 scenes x 60 MB = 12 GB
2012: 15,000 scenes = 900 GB
First Mile = The Farmer
Connecting farmers with research
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Site Specific Nutrient Management
Use the farmer as the sensor
Simple, local language interface
Web & Voice Operational in Philippines,
Android in Beta test
• Next: Indonesia, China, Bangladesh
• In development: Crop Manager
Precision agriculture services to poor farmers
Loans
Service Platform
Savings
Input Supply
Crop Insurance
Farmer Guidelines
Decision
Support
Tools
Web / Phone
R&D
Tools for Wise Investments
Nutrient Manager
Crop Manager
Tools to protect investment
Crop Doctor
Pest Management
Consolidation of Knowledge
Localization Research Verification
Modeling
Simulations
Farmer Participatory Testing
Agricultural Research Funding Falls Short
IRRI Budget 1960-2009
000 US$ 2009