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Collaborating on the Rice Genome

Many independent efforts have now been made to sequence portions of or all of the rice genome. The finished rice genome will be instrumental in cereal crop improvement and will serve as a foundation for other cereal genomes. With so much rice sequence now generated, it's time to consider merging these efforts toward a common goal of a finished and accurate genome sequence. Syngenta is making its rice draft sequence available to support the international project (IRGSP). We encourage all genome sequencing groups to join together in establishing a collaborative effort to complete a finished rice genome sequence in the most efficient and timely fashion.

All parties involved in rice genome sequencing are invited to participate. I recommend that participating parties provide sequence assemblies and raw chromatogram data to facilitate finishing of the rice genome and establish an assembly and finishing strategy that maximizes the use of existing data and the current sequencing efforts. In addition, assemblies, quality files, and chromatograms should be made available to all participating parties upon completion. Participating parties should not have preferential early access to the entire assembly, and they should collaborate on a finished sequence publication.