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The Maize Genome Sequencing Project is a three-year NSF-funded project to sequence the genespace of Zea mays ssp. mays using the public B73 line to a finished quality. The sequence is based on BAC sequences derived from the maize physical FPC map.
This site provides the latest sequence and annotation of the Zea mays ssp. mays genome resulting from the Maize Genome Sequencing Project. The browser is based on the AGI Agarose FPC Map and on BAC clone sequences contained therein.
Sequencing of the B73 cultivar commenced in November 2005 as part of a 3-year multi-institutional collaboration funded jointly by the NSF, USDA, and DOE. The strategy is to individually sequence a set BAC clones across a minimal-tiling path. Gene space will be identified and sequenced to finished quality. As of February 27, 2008, the consortium completed the draft sequence of the maize genome and will improve the sequence through the end of 2008. Read more about the Maize Genome Project or view the current sequencing progress.
The goal of MaizeSequence.org is to provide full and up-to-date access to all sequenced maize data. In addition to the latest sequenced BAC clones, the site presents basic annotations that are computationally derived from the sequence data. Annotations include predicted genes, markers, repeats, and expressed and conserved regions.
Our goal is to provide high quality sequence information to the research community in a timely manner. Accordingly, individual sequence read traces are submitted to the NCBI Trace Archive as soon as they have exited our quality control pipeline. Whole genome sequence assemblies are released as soon as possible following appropriate quality analysis. Our archive site contains draft versions of the genome sequence assemblies, and we ask that you understand that these represent preliminary data, subject to omissions and errors. In addition, whole genome assemblies are likely to change upon the availability of new data, and our website will document new assembly versions as they are released.
In recognition of the extensive effort that underlies these genome sequencing projects, we ask that you appropriately acknowledge the use of any preliminary data. We offer the following example for acknowledgement: "These data were produced by the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and can be obtained from ftp://genome.wustl.edu/pub/xxx", where xxx refers to the appropriate ftp directory from which the data has been obtained. Our official web address may also be used. This recommendation is in accordance with the adopted guidelines by the genome sequencing community in a statement of principles for the distribution and use of large-scale sequencing data: Community Resource Projects and the resulting NHGRI policy statement. If you have any questions regarding the use of this data, please contact us at web address: webmaster@genome.wustl.edu. We request that you contact the Director of the Sequencing Center, Richard Wilson, before publishing analyses of the sequence on a chromosome or genome scale.We welcome collaborative interaction to provide the community with improved whole genome analyses and annotations.
