Emergence of a Cotton SNP Chip from Consortium-Based Collaborations

This presentation will be a description of the Cotton SNP Chip that is expected to debut near the end of 2013, so that attendees are informed of the chip's relevance to their interests and how it might be used.  The presentation will include a brief introduction into SNPs and some of the optional methods of analysis.  The Illumina BeadArray platform that is to be used for the Cotton SNP Chip will be briefly introduced, and then described in terms of the configuration to be used for the Cotton SNP Chip, which will have a capacity for 90k bead types.  It will be explained that the overall capacity is conveniently allocated to "Fixed Content", which is static across chips, and "Add-On Content", which can vary across batches of chips.  We will describe how the public SNPs that comprise the "Fixed Content" of the Cotton SNP Chip, were developed and contributed by multiple research groups in the US and abroad.  Moreover, we'll describe relevance of the Fixed Content to various types of breeding germplasm, and why it collectively offers broad value to the world cotton research and breeding communities.  We'll also briefly describe how prospective chip users can also add private (non-public) content.