- December 20, 2012: Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres published, Nature 492:423-427
- November 9, 2012: Gossypium raimondii D genome BGI-CGP v1.0 available on CottonGen.
- October 12, 2012: ICGI 2012 Conference concluded and Proceedings of ICGI 2012 Conference was releasted at http://www.cottongen.org/ejournal/current/1.
- October 11, 2012: CottonGen V0.9 presented at ICGI 2012 Research Conference. See CottonGen presentation at ICGI 2012.
- October 8, 2012: CottonGen V0.9 released. For details of data and functionality of this release see the Function Overview Page.
- August 26, 2012: The draft genome of a diploid cotton Gossypium raimondii published, Nature Genetics 44:1098–1103
- April 11, 2012: CottonGen Steering Committee Formed
- March 21, 2012: ICGI 2012 Conference Registration starts.
- March 21, 2012: CottonGen ICGI website publicly available.
- February 22, 2012: The International Cotton Genome Initiative Research Conference will be held in Raleigh, NC, USA on October 9-13, 2012.
- January 15, 2012: International Cotton Genome Initiative Workshop at PAG XX
- January 5, 2012: Gossypium raimondii Genome Sequence Released
- January 3-6, 2012: Beltwide Cotton Conferences 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
- October 1, 2011: CottonDB moves to Washington State University.
