This project aims at building an International Wheat Information System, called hereafter WheatIS, to support the wheat research community. The main objective is to provide a single-access web base system to access to the available data resources and bioinformatics tools.

This project is based on the principles: (1) Collective building of the WheatIS to better respond to the needs of the international wheat community; (2) Incremental implementation to offer rapidly an operational information system; (3) Emphasis on Quality Assurance to serve as a framework for an approach with incremental implementation; (4) Promotion of an open-access model for data exchange; (5) Reliance on a distributed system; (6) Use of Virtual Machine and Cloud Computing technologies to facilitate sharing data and tools; and (7) Promotion of the visibility of each participating platform to contribute to their sustainability.