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Your data, your choice. At GEMS, we have the highest level of legal and technical security in place so you can be confident your data is shared only with whom you want.

Public-private collaboration

GEMS fosters the creation of partnerships among public and private entities by lowering the barriers to targeted data sharing and discovery. Currently more than a dozen companies are using GEMS infrastructure for this purpose.

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Data-driven agri-food innovation

We make data and workflows interoperable, providing actionable information that accelerates and expands public and private innovation.

Looking longterm

We're in here for the long haul. GEMS has recurring funding to cover core infrastructure costs, enabling us to drive forward bold initiatives.

Forging our future

Ag's future is digital. We nurture talent – be it in the field, on the bench, or in the boardroom – to develop next-gen data science skills needed to solve tomorrow's problems.

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Supporting secure collaborative research hubs

Using the GEMS Platform, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), an innovative US nonprofit, enables private companies and university partners to jointly tackle real-world agricultural challenges in crop breeding and management. Read more

Speeding wheat variety development

GEMS multi-trait predictor enables wheat breeders to enrich for varieties with many favorable traits simultaneously, bringing improved varieties to market years ahead of schedule. Read more

Farm practices that improve lake quality

GEMS is working closely with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to anchor farmer’s Best Management Practices (BMPs) to real science, utilizing GEMS’s tight privacy and security procedures to protect farmer data. Read more

GEMS Informatics is jointly led by the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) and Research Computing (including both the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and U-Spatial) at the University of Minnesota.

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