- November 6, 2013: CottonGen published in Nucleic Acids Research
- October 23, 2013: Illumina BeadArray Cotton SNP Chip available for the cotton community
- October 14, 2013: Cotton SNP Genotyping Panel Available for International Cotton Community
- September 15, 2013: CottonGen Presented at 2013 Cotton Breeders Tour
- September 15-18, 2013: 2013 Cotton Breeders Tour, Lubbock, Texas USA
- August 28, 2013: CottonGen FAQ is online available.
- August 24, 2013: CottonGen Data Download site added.
- August 23, 2013: A new tool for Sequence Retrieval is added.
- June 12, 2013: NCBI cotton sequences updated.
- May 28, 2013: New search site for Publications available on cottongen.
- May 17, 2013: New search site for Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) available on cottongen.
- April 4, 2013, CottonGen v1.0 released.
- April 3, 2013: 2013 Election for ICGI Officers ended.
- March 31, 2013: Gossypium raimondii D Genome JGI_221 v2.0 (annot v2.1) available on CottonGen.
- Feburary 19, 2013: 2013 Election for ICGI Officers started.
- January 13, 2013: Cotton Genome Initiative Workshop at PAG XXI
- January 7-10, Beltwide Cotton Conference 2013, San Antonio, Texas.