The Cacao Genome Sequence is released 3 years ahead of schedule!
The Theobroma cacao Matina1-6 genome sequence was released on Wednesday September 15, 2010.
The v0.9 preliminary release of the Theobroma cacao Matina1-6 genome is comprised of 1782 supercontigs. The first ten supercontigs represent the ten pseudomolecules (chromosomes) and account for 92.1% of the genome. A total of 34,997 consensus genes are predicted in this release.
To access the genome sequence and annotation data click on the genome sequence tab.
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