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Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:39:02 +0100
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This is Rajeev Varshney again. 

I am quite excited to see the ongoing discussions by Denis Murphy (Message 48), Adrian Dubock (Message 49) and David Steane (Message 50) on establishing a global genomics/breeding forum. In fact as a part of CGIAR Generation Challenge Pragramme (GCP), GCP established the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) for facilitating crop breeding using advanced tools (https://www.integratedbreeding.net/). And very recently, we have established the Agricultural Genomics Network (AGN) as a part of GCP/IBP (https://www.integratedbreeding.net/agricultural-genomics). Though this portal is still under development, with an objective of making genetic research and breeding applications cost-effective by enhancing adoption of modern genomic technologies, AGN is expected to have the following three main components:

- Develop a community to discuss advances in genomics and provide critical appraisal of genomic technologies, tools and approaches 

- Develop a portal that will present the information on tools, resources developed by GCP or available in the public domain either by hosting some of them, or by providing links to other existing databases and portals, and 

- Broker access to economically priced large scale sequencing, construction of variety of (BAC, cDNA, fosmid) libraries, physical mapping, sequencing and re-sequencing, etc, provided by third-party service providers (e.g. BGI, JCVI, NCGR). 

The current pages are the beginning of the proposed Genomic Resources Portal and will in due course be populated with appropriate information on various tools and resources - including markers, maps and QTLs. For more information, contact me or my colleagues- Manish Roorkiwal (m.roorkiwal (at) cgiar.org) or Dadu Doddamani (d. doddamani (at) cgiar.org). Colleagues interested in AGN are invited to join the AGN at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GCPAgricultural-Genomics-Network-4919729/about?trk=anet_ug_grppro . 

Rajeev K. Varshney, PhD, FNAAS
Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics) &
Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics, ICRISAT; 
Adjunct Professor (Plant Biology), University of Western Australia; and             
Theme Leader, CGIAR Generation Challenge Program 
Mailing Address: 
Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), Building # 300
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Patancheru - 502 324, Greater Hyderabad, 
India 
e-mail: R.K.Varshney (at) cgiar.org

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