21-23 November 2016, Patancheru, India. International conference on statistics & big data bioinformatics in agricultural research. Celebrating the 70th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (ISAS), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is organizing this conference with technical sessions on themes related to recent advances in statistics, phenotyping, bioinformatics, geo-statistics, data management and big data analytics. The themes covered include statistical genetics & genomics and genomic selection & genome-wide association mapping. See http://isas70.icrisat.ac.in/ or contact [email protected] for more information.