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First BRS general meeting conducted for EBS and service laboratory teams at IRRI HQ

Breeding and Research Services (BRS) Senior Director, Dr. Sharifah Syed Alwee, returned to the International Rice Research Institute Headquarters (IRRI HQ) to spearhead the first BRS general meeting on 01 February 2024 at the IKS Network Commons. The meeting was attended by members of the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) team and IRRI’s laboratory services: Grain Quality and Nutrition Services Laboratory (GQNSL) and Genotyping Service Laboratory (GSL) teams.

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Update

Development underway on EBS Milestone 6 functionalities

Developers are working on over a hundred new or improved functionalities in the August 2022 to January 2023 period, following a series of global meetings that distilled user requirements into a realistic blueprint for the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Milestone 6 release.

Partner news

IITA and partners launch EBS-Maize Platform to modernize breeding programs

IITA, Excellence in Breeding (EiB), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and other partners launched the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) for maize breeding data management on 22 April.

Update

A transformational breeding data management system goes online at CGIAR centers

The EBS project celebrated an important milestone as adoption started at IITA, IRRI and CIMMYT.

Video

EBS Town Hall: How users are involved in development and the way forward

On 26 October 2021, with the first functional version of the software bring released, over 100 EBS staff and stakeholders came together to hear from the breeders involved in development and the roadmap for future releases.

Blog

New platform harnesses data – and unleashes breeders’ time

A bold new data management platform, the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), is helping breeders harness the power of data, save time, and make the best breeding decisions. EiB has just released a faster, more feature-filled version.

Meeting

Toward a unified breeding data management system

Members of the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) advisory committee met on 17-18 January to review progress on the development of a full-spectrum breeding data management software.