The University of Kentucky Research Foundation will receive $146,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to develop a user-friendly software program for sequence-based diagnostic analysis of invasive pest species. The two-year project grant beginning September 1, 2023 intends to create an end-to-end analysis tool for next-generation sequencing data to flexibly analyze sequence data, call genotypes for probabilistic species identification, and perform geographic source or pathway analysis if applicable. The software will be designed as a universal framework for sequencing-based diagnostics of taxonomically difficult pest groups and hosted online with a user-friendly interface to promote wide adoption. This supports the AFRI program priority area of plant health and production.
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