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DUDE: A User‐Friendly Crop Information System
Author(s) -
Yan Weikai,
Tinker Nicholas A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj2006.0280
Subject(s) - computer science , database , relational database , variety (cybernetics) , relational database management system , artificial intelligence
A crop information system facilitates the storage, retrieval, and utilization of historical crop performance data. Here, we report a user‐friendly crop information system entitled Data Unification and Distillation Engine (DUDE), which (i) converts data from spreadsheet formats to a relational database, (ii) allows editing of tables in the database, (iii) simplifies the construction and execution of queries from the database, (iv) formats queried data into a variety of file structures for data analyses, and (v) simplifies maintenance and corrections of data in the database. DUDE runs on any personal computer that operates with Windows 2000 or later versions of Microsoft Windows. DUDE is freely available from the authors.