River Falls, Wisconsin, USA
January 2011

BDI invites you to join the PAL Consortium. The Charter Member membership fee will be $2,500 and will give you access to the genotype information of up to 360 Off Patent and Public Release corn inbred lines. Subsequent annual dues will be $500 due in December each year. Charter members will:

1. Be able to help choose the inbreds to be genotyped.
2. Receive a genotype, dendogram, and similarity matrix of all inbreds genotyped.
3. Have the opportunity to genotype proprietary lines in a separate sample pool with other Consortium members. (BDI will maintain confidentiality for all proprietary genotyping done.)
4. Receive a separate dendogram and similarity matrix of all inbreds genotyped including the genotypes of proprietary inbred lines.
5. Have access to additional BDI evaluation tools at a discounted consulting rate of $80/hour.
6. PAL Consortium members will receive the bin location for each BDI SNP marker.

If you wish to join the PAL Consortium, please return a copy of this invitation along with a check for $2,500 made out to BioDiagnostics, Inc.

If you have any questions, please contact Quentin Schultz at Quentin.schultz@biodiagnostics.net or call 715-426-0246.

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Published: January 22, 2011