| Reviewer name and names of any other individual's who aided in reviewer | Zhuang Yang |
| Do you understand and agree to our policy of having open and named reviews, and having your review included with the published manuscript. (If no, please inform the editor that you cannot review this manuscript.) | Yes |
| Is the language of sufficient quality? | Yes |
| Please add additional comments on language quality to clarify if needed | |
| Is there a clear statement of need explaining what problems the software is designed to solve and who the target audience is? | Yes |
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| Is the source code available, and has an appropriate Open Source Initiative license <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses" target="_blank">(https://opensource.org/licenses)</a> been assigned to the code? | Yes |
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| As Open Source Software are there guidelines on how to contribute, report issues or seek support on the code? | Yes |
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| Is the code executable? | Unable to test |
| Additional Comments | This is a database, i can't test its code. But i can work well. |
| Is installation/deployment sufficiently outlined in the paper and documentation, and does it proceed as outlined? | Unable to test |
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| Is the documentation provided clear and user friendly? | Yes |
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| Is there enough clear information in the documentation to install, run and test this tool, including information on where to seek help if required? | Yes |
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| Is there a clearly-stated list of dependencies, and is the core functionality of the software documented to a satisfactory level? | Yes |
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| Have any claims of performance been sufficiently tested and compared to other commonly-used packages? | No |
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| Is test data available, either included with the submission or openly available via cited third party sources (e.g. accession numbers, data DOIs)? | No |
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| Are there (ideally real world) examples demonstrating use of the software? | No |
| Additional Comments | It will be better to add a case study to show the utility of the database. How to find useful and unique information in the database? |
| Is automated testing used or are there manual steps described so that the functionality of the software can be verified? | Yes |
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| Any Additional Overall Comments to the Author | 1. The download module is not found on the website. I hope the author can provide the download interface. The data displayed in this article are provided in this module, allowing users to download the corresponding data and conduct more personalized analysis according to their own needs. 2. If there is a corresponding relationship between genotype data and phenotypic data, I recommend that the author add a GWAS display to the website. This is very important for breeders looking for phenotypic related SNPs 3. When using GWAS results to find genes, LDblock analysis is a very important reference. It is recommended that the author add an LDblock tool to the website, which allows users to perform LDblock analysis on specific intervals of population genotypes. 4. In the tool module, there is only one blast. Can additional tools be added to make the database more usable? 5. Although there are many data in the database, the data sources, process, and data quality are unknown. And users are not easy to find useful information in the database. The authors should be listed the data sources and publications on help page. This also acknowledges the colleagues of data production. |
| Recommendation | Minor Revisions |