The International Potato Center is partnering with Novogene Bioinformatics Technology Co. Ltd. to advance potato genome research. Under the partnership, Novogene will sequence the genomes of samples provided by CIP from nine different taxa of cultivated potato and one closely related wild species.

Novogene's scientists will then apply their cutting edge bioinformatics technologies and expertise to assemble the millions of sequences and align them to the publically available reference potato genome.