CannSeek? Yes we Can! An open-source SNP database and analysis portal for Cannabis sativa

Growing interest in Cannabis use for food, fiber, and medicine, and recent changes in regulations have spurred numerous genomic studies of this once prohibited plant. Cannabis research already utilizes Next Generation Sequencing technology for genomics and transcriptomics. While other crops have genome portals enabling access and analysis of numerous genotyping data from diverse accessions, leading to discovery of alleles for important traits, this is notably absent for Cannabis. The CannSeek web portal aims to address this gap. SNP datasets were generated by identifying genome variants from public resequencing data and genome assemblies. Results and accompanying traits data are hosted in the CannSeek web application, built using Rice SNP-Seek infrastructure with improvements to allow multiple reference genomes and provide a web-service API. Tools built in the portal allow phylogenetic analyses, varietal grouping and identification, and favorable haplotype discovery for cannabis accessions with public sequencing data.

The CannSeek portal is available at https://icgrc.info/cannseek , https://icgrc.info/genotype_viewer