Editor’s Assessment

With the wide adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in cannabis research, more and more genomics data is becoming publicly available to improve crop research. This study integrates NGS sequences generated from different projects to provide a comprehensive tool/resource that allows for variant analyses across these datasets. The CannSeek web portal presenting here being built using the Rice SNP-Seek infrastructure with improvements to allow multiple reference genomes and provide a web-service API. The tools built into the portal allow phylogenetic analyses, varietal grouping and identifications, and favorable haplotype discovery for cannabis accessions bringing together curated public sequencing data. Peer review adding additional case-studies to demonstrate the utility of this platform.

Editor’s Assessment

With the wide adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in cannabis research, more and more genomics data is becoming publicly available to improve crop research. This study integrates NGS sequences generated from different projects to provide a comprehensive tool/resource that allows for variant analyses across these datasets. The CannSeek web portal presenting here being built using the Rice SNP-Seek infrastructure with improvements to allow multiple reference genomes and provide a web-service API. The tools built into the portal allow phylogenetic analyses, varietal grouping and identifications, and favorable haplotype discovery for cannabis accessions bringing together curated public sequencing data. Peer review adding additional case-studies to demonstrate the utility of this platform.