Using Cottongen for Crop Improvement

CottonGen (www.cottongen.org), is an established, dedicated online community database resource facilitating research discovery and crop improvement in cotton.  It provides curated and integrated publicly available cotton genomics, genetics and breeding (GGB) data, accessible through easy-to-use web pages where the data can be readily searched, filtered and downloaded or viewed through a suite of commonly used visualization tools. In this presentation we provide an overview of CottonGen for breeders, show specific examples of use for breeding, and showcase the latest functionality of the Breeding Information Management System (BIMS), a private and secure site within CottonGen that individual breeders can use to manage and analyze their breeding program data while also leveraging the publicly available GGB data in their decision-making.