The Canadian Potato Genome Project was launched in 2002 to develop resources in gene discovery in potatoes, for Canadian researchers and their partners to use.

Project deliverables to develop these resources and capabilities were established:

• the production of high-quality, full-length cDNA libraries from potato, generating at least 100,000 ESTs
• the generation of a microarray using at least 10,000 non-redundant genes
• the generation of a large population of activation tagged mutant potato lines
• the establishment of bioinformatics for project operations and tools development
• the production of several scholarly GE3LS¹works on intellectual property in plant biotechnology, and a bibliography on potato/crop genomics

1 Genetics, ethics, economics, environment, legal, societal aspects of genomics