- October 31, 2016: Cotton Trait Ontology is online available
- October 25, 2016: CottonGen Pathway Tools updated to v20
- October 21, 2016: Held CottonGen Steering Committee Meeting
- October 18, 2016: 48 genetic maps added to CottonGen CMap
- October 13, 2016: GenSAS Repeat Masker et al. on CottonGen JBrowse
- September 16, 2016: ICRA’s new website is up and running and welcome new members
- August 30, 2016: 24 SNP VCF files from BYU Udall's Lab downloadable from CottonGen
- August 16, 2016: Added 39,962 BYU SNPs with information from NCBI in chado and online searchable
- August 8 2016: Added 32,113 new SNPs (UCD_Gh, DOW, TAMU_GH) to chado and online searchable
- August 5, 2016: Added 35,484 new TAMU_GlspSNPs to chado and online searchable
- July 21, 2016: Added 34,550 new TAMU_Gl SNPs and 171 new TAMU_GH SNP primer and sequences added and online searchable
- July 17, 2016: 45,111 new SNPs (14,613 UCD_Gh, 24,829 TAMU_arm, and 6669 TAMU_mus) added and online searchable
- June 30, 2016: TAMU CottonSNP63K inter- and intra-species maps available on CottonGen and online searchable
- May 3, 2016: CottonGen presented at 2016-05 WCRC-6/ICGI 2016 Research Conference, Goiânia - Goiás, Brazil
- April 28, 2016: CottonCyc AD1-BGI pathways available on CottonGen
- April 28, 2016: Synteny analysis between D5-JGI.v2 and A2-BGI.v2 available on CottonGen
- April 25, 2016: G.barbadense 3-79 genome sequence and annotation data available in CottonGen JBrowse
- April 8, 2016: ARS-CS NCGC SSR genotypic data available on CottonGen
- February 26, 2016: G.barbadense 3-79 genome sequence and annotation data available on CottonGen BLAST servers
- February 19, 2016: G.barbadense 3-79 genome sequence and annotation data available on CottonGen Data Download
- January 12, 2016: CottonGen presented at PAG XXIV Computer Demo, San Diego, California, USA
- January 10, 2016: ICGI Workshop at PAG XXIV, San Diego, California, USA
- January 7, 2016: Cottongen presented at Beltwide Cotton Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- January 5, 2016: Cotton Breeders Workshop at Beltwide Cotton Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA