Invited and sponsored by Shenyang Agricultural University, Star Gao, Kelly Robbins, and Kate Dreher held the first GOBii and EiB genomic breeding workshop in China this August 6-8. Over 70 participants attended the […]
CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IRRI, GOBii met at Cornell University May 30-June 1st, to conduct alpha testing for each genomic selection component tools, and discuss and document bugs and enhancement requests.
Hima Bindu Kudapa, Scientist (Genomics and Molecular Breeding), Research Program-Genetic Gains, ICRISAT, presented a talk on GOBii, entitled “High-density genomics and data management for enhancing genetic gains in sorghum” at […]
The GOBii team at Cornell cheered PI Susan McCouch’s election to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)! The group fêted Susan for her career achievements expressing gratitude for her inspirational leadership and […]
The week long event was sponsored by EiB, BTI, HTPG, BCBC, GOBii and Cornell University and hosted by Next Generation Casava, GOBii and BCBC with 19 participants from IITA,USDA, […]
GOBii stakeholders convened at the third GOBii annual meeting, August 14-16 at International Rice Research Institute
Developers met at ICRISAT, India for a GOBii Hackathon to review topics such as HDF5 optimization, building a marker tools portal, and integrating GOBii with BMS (Breeding Management System). The […]
“We are at a pivotal point in time where there are several open-source data systems and analysis tools being built that can be utilized for developing country breeding programs. By […]
Crop breeders in developing countries can now access free tools to accelerate the breeding of improved crops varieties, thanks to a collaboration between the GOBII project at Cornell University and […]
Participants at the first Genomic and Open source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBII) workshop at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) the week of Nov. 2 attempted to plan a one-size-fits-all solution […]
