About 100,000 new potato varieties are developed by breeders across the globe every year, but only one or two have the right combination of characteristics to be commercialised.
The software, used in South Australia for analysing pine seedlings, will speed up the process.
Dr Tony McRae, managing director of software developers Southern Tree Breeding Association, says it's already attracting overseas attention.
"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the United States Department of Agriculture have provided us with preliminary data to start designing the system and
testing the system," he said.
"They don't have a system like we're proposing for potatoes, they know it's one area of breeding they're not good at."They're good at collecting lots of data but they just don't quite have the sophisticated tools to process that information."