Bioinformatics in Crop Genetics and Molecular Breeding

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid increase in omics data and phenotypic data, applications of bioinformatics in fundamental research and crop breeding are much more popular than ever. Integration of omics data and phenomics data provides a promising foundation for exploring on a large scale the genetic basis, critical genes and regulatory network for important breeding traits. Artificial intelligence (AI) has also been widely applied in bioinformatics, genome selection breeding and molecular designing breeding. This Special Issue will highlight the methodologies of omics data mining, bioinformatics databases, crop breeding databases and AI-based breeding applications. Manuscripts regarding the biological issues addressed predominantly via bioinformatics methods are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Ji Huang
Dr. Junxian Huang
Guest Editors

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• bioinformatics
• artificial intelligence
• genetics
• breeding
• crop
• database
• applications