Hi,
A number of labs and teams have been developing cotton SNPs, and there seems now to be
ample numbers of SNPs and interest in the cotton community to form a Cotton SNP
Consortium, which could drive down development and application costs considerably for
individual SNP developers and users.
We do not want to exclude anyone, and the more extensive the participation, the more cost
effective and time-effective the Consortium will be.
I am contacting you and other ICGI members via the ICGI ListServe to ask if you MIGHT be
interested in participating in a Cotton SNP Consortium? Participants may have public,
philanthropic and/or commercial interests in mind; they may be from the US or elsewhere.
To indicate your interest in receiving communications regarding the Consortium, please
send to me an email (stelly(a)tamu.edu) , preferably with COTTON SNP CONSORTIUM in the
SUBJECT LINE.
If so, additional information will be sent to your email address, i.e., to provide
additional information about the Consortium as it develops, and solicit a description of
your possible interests. Your positive response will be taken to indicate a desire for
information only, and does not entail any sort of commitment.
Participation in the Consortium could be in any or all of several ways:
[1] Buying chips to screen your germplasm, research and breeding materials,
[2] Contributing SNPs to the Public SNP Set,
[3] Contributing SNPs as proprietary SNP content, only, and
[4] Donating funds, to help offset cost.
Thanks,
David
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David M. Stelly
Professor, Dept. Soil & Crop Sciences
Texas A&M University
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stelly(a)tamu.edu
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Tel. (979) 845-2745
Cell: (979) 676-2087
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Fax. 979-845-0456 (Dept. Office)
http://soilcrop.tamu.edu/professors/stelly/profile.htm
http://genetics.tamu.edu/faculty/stelly_david1
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