Welcome to SeedTrack

This is a seed data management system to manage the data produced at each step in the lifecycle of plant materials production. SeedTrack tracks records of seed collections as they proceed from wildland collection through curation and ex-situ conservation, are directed into container and other field seed production, tracking individual collections to specific outplanting and restoration sites. From Seed to Seed, SeedTrack is a biological information system built to manage the massive amount of data generated by native seed supply chains to enhance the practice of ecological restoration.

SeedTrack uses an event-based architecture developed through the Advancing the Digitization of Biological Collections effort by the National Science Foundation beginning around 2007. We take the many innovations that have emerged from the thematic collection networks, like the Islands of the Californias Biodiversity Information System (Cal-IBIS) and the Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory, and apply similar bioinformatics data management strategies to map out the seed supply chain. The goal is to systematically collect and organize data generated by the lifecycle of plant materials production, starting with the collection event of the wildland source seed, to its curation and eventual storage. The system captures characteristics about that storage, can capture germination performance in both ex-situ and in-situ restoration settings, the propagation and agronomic qualities of the species, and eventually will have the ability to monitor success of individual seed lots through long-term restoration site monitoring.

SeedTrack is a modular system that uses the biological informatics functionality of Symbiota to track both in-situ and ex-situ plant and seed collections across the many events in the plant materials lifecycle, from seed to seed.