Responding to Nature Biotech’s call “Voices of biotech research” for its 25th Anniversary collection, Dr Varshney highlighted the integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the huge volume of datasets now available to researchers due to the latest genome sequencing tools and platforms. He opined that it would be an exciting area of biotech research for enhancing the accuracy of genomic prediction for accelerated crop improvement programs. The full feature on Voices of biotech research.

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In-house version 12 March 2021, No.1897
Recognition
ICRISAT scientist featured among 25 global researchers
as “Voices of biotech research” by Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology, the world’s leading
biotechnology journal, recently featured Dr Rajeev K
Varshney as one of the 25 global researchers in
biotechnology answering two important questions:
“What will be the most important areas of research in
biotech over the coming years?” and “Which
technologies will be most important to advance
knowledge and applications in these areas?” Dr
Varshney, Research Program Director, Genetic Gains,
ICRISAT, is the only agricultural scientist among the 25
researchers.
Responding to Nature Biotech’s call “Voices of biotech
research” for its 25th
Anniversary collection, Dr Varshney
highlighted the integration of Machine Learning and
Artificial Intelligence with the huge volume of datasets
now available to researchers due to the latest genome
sequencing tools and platforms. He opined that it would
be an exciting area of biotech research for enhancing
the accuracy of genomic prediction for accelerated crop
improvement programs. The full feature on Voices of
biotech research can be accessed here https://doi.
org/10.1038/s41587-021-00847-1 .
ICRISAT’s Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems
Biology (CEGSB), together with its partners and
collaborators, have been leading and advancing genomic
research for accelerating crop improvement programs in
Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, while
conducting high-quality research ICRISAT’s CEGSB
(https://cegsb.icrisat.org/) has published more than 400+
high-quality articles including 15 papers in Nature
Journals.