Details for 2004 annual report and year two workplan

It is my pleasure to submit the research and financial report for our first full year of operations. It has been an exciting, eventful, productive, and fulfilling year, indeed.

As you will see in the following report, we have launched a dynamic and comprehensive research programme. Through this initial work we have begun translating the vision incorporated in our original concepts into reality at a rapid rate. Beyond simply supporting research, we are constructing an information management and analysis platform that will allow all participants in the GCP to have access to our data, analytical tools, and reports. This bioinformatics resource, a first of its kind in the CGIAR, will serve as a resource for all CGIAR scientists and their partners who are involved in genomics- and crop improvement-related research. Perhaps most importantly, this platform will fully integrate the GCP, and by extension the entire CGIAR, into the broader global plant genomics research community. Such integration is essential if the CGIAR is to continue to play a leading role applying cutting-edge science to critical agricultural problems in developing countries.

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