Lukas Mueller is a Professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY, USA. He is a bioinformatician and genomics and breeding database developer for such databases as SGN (https://solgenomics.net/), Cassavabase (https://cassavabase.org/) and other Breedbase databases (https://breedbase.org/). For the CASS project, the Mueller lab develops database and data management practices and workflows (https://cassbase.org/), as well as analysis tools such as a biochemical pathway database for cassava called CassavaCyc and a comprehensive expression atlas based on RNA-Seq data.