Comments on: No strawberry genome ::sniff::

By: James

James — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:14 +0000

Heh.

You raise a good point Greg. Hopefully this date, that I too presume is a a mix up between December and January, won’t go viral and be used by others to dispute the existence and/or safety for human observation of the woodland strawberry genome when it gets released to the public.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:14:15 +0000

Wow! I am very impressed that Dr. Vladimir Shulaev was able to give a talk almost a year into the future! I thought they would be done by sometime before December based on this press release, odd that it (his talk, in the future) will only be about the draft. They must be about to run into some problems. Makes you wonder how misinformation could get started in the first place.

By: Kevin Folta

Kevin Folta — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:52:05 +0000

James,

Thanks a lot. You’re right, someone jumped the gun with a press release. They are not completely incorrect in that we’re extremely close!

We’ll definitely give you pre-release information for CoGe analysis. I think you’ll find that the gene models are particularly robust and assembly is quite good. This was a pass-the-hat-and-pay-for-a-genome effort done 100% with short read sequencing. This community effort makes it really rather unique.

Thanks for your post.

Kevin Folta
for the Strawberry Genome Sequencing Consortium