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July 16, 2008

Agaricus bisporus Genome Sequencing – Project Update July 2008

Recent news from the JGI project manager:

The Agaricus bisporus H97 whole genome shotgun 3kb library has been constructed and passed QC. The 8 & 40kb gDNA libraries are also in construction.
Three EST libraries have been constructed from our RNA pools and are currently at QC production sequencing.
JGI will notify us when all three libraries for whole genome sequencing have passed QC and when to expect our 4X assembly.

Project background
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/agaricusgenome
http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/99189.html