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Chart: ILCI analytics flowchart v0.1
The ILCI project team held meetings with the CIWA breeding leaders to understand the requirements from a user perspective for the process. An important outcome of those discussions was an agreement to use the means (BLUEs) and error variances from Single-Site Analyses as the inputs for the pipeline rather than the raw data. This has three benefits: 1) it simplifies the process from the pipeline’s perspective; 2) it will provide an important data quality control step to the process, ensuring that the inputs have been reviewed by the breeders and deemed to be good quality data; and 3) it will enable the pipeline to run faster, returning results to the user quicker.
To support acquisition of the data from the BMS as input to the pipeline, a set of API calls were developed in the BMS. These calls provide easily accessible and efficient access to all of the data needed to run the pipeline. In designing the calls, the BMS developers conferred with the BrAPI community and solutions adopted by other projects for working with statistical results data.