Apple genome sequenced

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All - the sequence of the apple genome was released today. I played a small role in the project. Here's one version of the press release.
 
Congratulations, Roger! Nice work!

When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be a joke about Apple Computers, but I'm glad something really valuable was done.

With you and Brent contributing, one never knows whether to expect serious research or the latest joke!

BTW, congragts on the new TomCat!

Joe. :lol: :thup
 
congrats on the new boat.
An infectious disease walks into a bar. The bartender says "we don't serve infectious diseases in this bar" and the infectious disease says "well you're not a good host"
 
Roger, that is a real achievement! The press release iw worth perusing, to appreciate the scope of this result ... with both practical and theoretical effects above the useal research finding.

As a grad of UW, I am proud today.
 
Congratulations Roger, what an achievement! Apples and a new TomCat all in the same week!

Look forward to SBS 11 this year, I'm pretty sure Sally and I are coming again.

Charlie
 
Brent,

The apple genome is about 600M base pairs in length. There are a lot of duplications in this genome - essentially all of it was duplicated a little over 50M years ago. That made it very challenging to interpret the data and to assemble the draft sequence.
 
B²":1limtqh3 said:
Thanks Roger

I am glad you were involved instead of me :wink:
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To be fair, I played a relatively minor role. I did a little of the initial sequencing of the portion done in the U.S. and I helped Amit Dhingra (at WSU) get his sequencing efforts started. The U.S. sequence data (Amit's and mine) was a little less than 10% of the total while the Italian group really led the international project and contributed about 90% of the data. A U.S. company (Roche/454) did some sequencing at the end to check the assembly and much of the computational assembly work was done in the U.S. So while I helped out some, most of the credit goes to the Italians who have a very well funded agricultural genomics effort. Ag science in the U.S. is relatively poorly funded especially given our major contribution to feeding the world.
 
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