An informational view of accession rarity and allele specificity in germplasm banks for management and conservation

Repository of the data set used in the paper "An informational view of accession rarity and allele specificity in germplasm banks for management and conservation" M. Humberto Reyes-Valdés 1, Juan Burgueño-Ferreira 2, Octavio Martínez 3, Carolina Paola Sansaloni 2. 1 Department of Plant Breeding/Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico 2 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico 3 Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados/Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico PLOS. The file AllDataHexaploid.bin has the original data used to calculate specificity. A subset of the original file was used for other analysis and it is included in two different formats; as a binary file (.bin) readable by R and as a comma delimited plain text (,csv).