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With the acquisition of state-of-the-art software, the group has started to carry out data-mining analysis on data sets that have heretofore been too large for manipulation. The powerful SUN V880 in the group, coupled with Kensington software, will allow large scale mining of combined data sets from the dairy industry. This opens the door to collaboration with teams from bioinformatics, genomics and other data banks that have remained independent up to now.