PRECISION BREEDING TECHNOLOGIES

Computer software and software tools to mine and manage crop and animal genomes and genetics, crop and animal breeding pedigree information, and digital and field-based phenotypic characterization of germplasm for agricultural research and development purposes; computer software and software tools for editing crop and animal genomes; computer software and software tools to enable gene modeling and novel target discovery for accelerated plant or animal breeding; computer software and software tools to manage crop nurseries and trials of agricultural crops; computer software and algorithms designed to enable crop breeders and scientists to conduct phenotypic and genotypic analyses of crop field trial observations for research and analysis in the fields of science, biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, and genomics

Scientific and technological services, namely, research and design in the field of agricultural crop and/or animal genetics and breeding; scientific services, namely, research and analysis for genotyping based on biological markers; computer services in this class, namely, on-line computer services, namely, creating online databases comprised of scientific information for research purposes; interactive computer communications network services, namely, creating an on-line community for registered users to participate in discussions, receive feedback from peers, form virtual communities, and engage in social networking services in the field of agriculture, and computer data management services; technical consultancy and advice in relation to computers; design and development of computer software; analysis and testing of computer software; repair, installation, construction, maintenance and updating of computer software programs; providing information about other scientific services providers, computer programs, and data processing; laboratory services related to agricultural crop or animal genetic analysis; scientific research services related to agricultural crops and/or livestock trait, metabolite, and yield phenotyping and other phenotyping services; scientific research services related to the use of genetic markers in plant and animal breeding

Agricultural services, namely, advisory services related to agricultural research, breeding, and development; providing animal and crop genomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, and proteomic databases in the field of agriculture; providing agricultural information and advice related to genotyping, phenotyping, location analysis, and climate maps; providing information related to diagnostic genetic markers to enable agricultural breeders to alter and improve the traits of plants and animals on the basis of genotypic assays and computational algorithms