Solgenomics

BTI's Lukas Mueller worked with an international team of 57 people to create Breedbase, a database software to help plant breeders speed crop improvement around the world.
https://btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/breedbase-software-to-help-speed-crop-improvement/

Here's a really neat story about a new software package that helps plant breeders analyze crops in the field, and how BTI's Nick Morales of the Mueller lab created an interface that makes it easier to use:
https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/csan.20438.

New tomato reference SL4.0 and annotation ITAG4.0 released in time for the XVI Conference
Highlights: https://solgenomics.net/organism/Solanum_lycopersicum/genome/
Download: ftp://ftp.solgenomics.net/tomato_genome/assembly/build_4.00/ and ftp://ftp.solgenomics.net/tomato_genome/annotation/ITAG4.0_release/

Build highlights SL4.0
- Only 44Kb of N's (unknown bases) compared to 81.7Mb in SL3.0
- Only 152 unplaced contigs in Chr 00 compared to 4,374 in SL3.0
- Better annotation of repeat regions in SL4.0

Annotation highlights ITAG4.0
- 34,075 protein coding genes in ITAG4.0
- Functional descriptions assigned to 29,532 genes
- ITAG4.0 has 4,794 novel genes
- 29,281 genes preserved from ITAG2.3

Sol Genomics Network The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project was begun in 2004 by an international consortium including participants from Korea, China, the United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy and the United States. The initial approach was to sequence only the euchromatic seque...