Using the Cottongen Breeding Information Management System for Cotton Improvement www.cottongen.org Jing Yu1, Taein Lee1, Sook Jung1, Don C. Jones2, B. Todd Campbell3, Ksenija Gasic4, Jodi L. Humann1, and Dorrie Main1 1. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2. Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC, 3. USDA-ARS, Florence, SC, 4. Clemson University, Clemson, SC Abstract Fueled by rapid advances in large-scale genotyping and phenotyping, plant breeding programs have become increasingly “big data” intensive. To efficiently manage, integrate and utilize these huge data sets from both private and public data sources in breeding decision-making, we report progress on the Tripal Breeding Information Management System (BIMS) available in CottonGen. BIMS allows individual breeders to integrate their phenotypic and genotypic data with public genomic and genetic data and at the same time have complete control of their own breeding data and access to tools such as data import/export, data analysis and data archive functionality. BIMS incorporates the use of an Android App Field Book, an open-source software for phones and tablets, which allows breeders to replace hard-copy field books, thus alleviating the possibility of transcription errors while providing faster access to the collected data. The use of Field Book and BIMS promotes the use and development of standard trait descriptors and metadata collection. The current functionality includes manage breeding, data import, search and download and basic statistical analysis components. BIMS Vision Create program or manage members BIMS Components a secure, comprehensive, online breeding data management and analysis system developed by our lab to: Store, manage, archive, analyze their private data Integrate private data with publicly available data Manage data from the Field Book App, an Android app for collecting phenotype data in the field Available for any Tripal crop/animal databases Archive data Manage Breeding Data Import Search and Download Field Book App Management Data Analysis Tools @CottonGen_news Select trails and compare their trait measurements Data import by templates or Field Book App output Choose a program or a trial to view stats for each trait Choose a program or a trial to view location(s) on google map Search specific region of MIC and save the result Acknowledged with Thanks The Cotton Research Community