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Date Published
Author
Tim Williamson
Word count
3131
Language
English
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None

Summary

Monsanto, a global agricultural products company, is working to improve its genomics pipeline data analysis to address the challenges of feeding a growing population. The company aims to develop more efficient crops to meet the demands of a projected 9.5 billion people by 2050. Monsanto's scientists have been using artificial selection and hybridization techniques for decades to breed better crops, but they are now looking at new ways to analyze their data using graph databases. By leveraging graph analysis, Monsanto can quickly process large amounts of data on plant ancestry and genotype information, allowing them to make more informed decisions in their breeding pipeline. This technology has the potential to save millions of dollars a year by reducing the need for field trials and expanding the horizontal scaling of their pipeline.