2013 Work Completed

  • [DATA] Uzbekistan cotton germplasm evaluation data, 22,154 trait scores of 39 traits from 847 evaluated germplasm, have been loaded in chado (12/27/13)
  • [DATA] China cotton germplasm evaluation data, 22,439 trait scores of 34 traits from evaluated 2,957 germplasm, have been loaded in chado (12/26/13)
  • [DATA] New 12269 digital images of 2,016 germplasm, from USDA-ARS National Cotton Germplasm characterization Project, added in chado (12/22/13)
  • [DATA] Added 286 new germplasm that brought in by USDA-ARS College Station Germplasm Characterization Project. (12/17/13)
  • [DATA] Updated 9,414 existing markers by filling primer and information of source sequence and/or clone libraries, etc. (11/29/13)
  • [DATA] Added 3,786 new markers include ECU and NAU SSRs, BYU SNPs, etc. with marker primer and information of source sequence and/or clone libraries, etc. (11/29/13)
  • [TOOL] Sequence data on BLAST servers were updated. (11/20/13)
  • [SEARCH] Gerplasm 'Search by Name' added. Wild card (*) can be used to match any word in the search. (10/30/13)
  • [SEARCH] Trait evaluation search result is sortable by trait value columns. (10/4/13)
  • CottonGen presented at 2013 Cotton Breeders Tour (09/15/13)
  • Cottongen section for book chapter "The U.S. National Cotton Germplasm Collection - its Contents, Preservation, Characterization, and Evaluation" submitted (09/05/13)
  • Data submission site available (08/28/13)
  • CottonGen tutorials site available (08/28/13)
  • CottonGen FAQ available (08/28/13)
  • Data download site available (08/24/13)
  • Sequence retrieval tool available (08/23/13)
  • Submission of CottonGen manuscript to Nucleic Acids Research Database edition (08/23/13)
  • Updating marker sequences (4610 RFP and 26,162 SSR marker sequences on to the public site) (08/20/13).
  • Updating publications (2,077 have been imported to public site) (07/13).
  • Tripal importers for automatically updating publications from PubMed and Agricola (6/21/2013)
  • NCBI cotton sequences updated (6/12/2013)
  • New search site for publications is available on CottonGen (5/28/2013)
  • New search site for QTL search is available on CottonGen (5/17/2013)
  • Excel file of markers mapped to the JGI G. raimondii genome availale to download - does not contain Udalls SNPs (04/03/13)
  • Page width increased to 1200 pixels to improve formatting (04/03/13)
  • Home page reformatted, new research story added to rotating images (04/03/13)
  • Data contributors page added (04/03/13)
  • Work completed page added (04/03/13)
  • Work in progress page added (04/03/13)
  • Quarterly site usage statistics added and cumulative since site release updated (04/03/13)
  • The GBrowse, CMap, FPC, and NCBI BLAST pages text updated (04/03/13)
  • TM-1 x 3-79, RIL (2012.v2) map added (03/31/13)
  • All search results can now be downloaded (03/31/13)
  • JGI G. raimondii genome sequence and annotation released on cottongen (03/31/13)
  • ICGI 2013 Officer Election Voting System implemented (02/19/13)