With an objective of making genetic research and breeding applications cost-effective by enhancing adoption of modern genomic technologies, GCP is exploring possible initiation of the Agricultural Genomics Network (AGN) as a part of the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). AGN is expected to have the following three main components:

1. Develop a community to discuss advances in genomics and provide critical appraisal of genomic technologies, tools and approaches
2. Develop a portal that will present the information on tools, resources developed by GCP or available in the public domain either by hosting some of them, or by providing links to other existing databases and portals, and
3. Broker access to economically priced large scale sequencing, construction of variety of (BAC, cDNA, fosmid) libraries, physical mapping, sequencing and re-sequencing, etc, provided by third-party service providers (eg. BGI, JCVI, NCGR).