The following announcement is being sent as requested by Todd Vision:

We are please to announce the initial release of the Mimulus guttatus genome from the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Mimulus is one of the first completely sequenced plants in the large asterid clade of eudicots, and is a long-standing model organism for ecological and evolutionary genetics. The assembly and annotation of the IM62 inbred line are available from Phytozome (http://www.phytozome.net/mimulus) for browsing, BLAST, and download. The assembly consists of 321.7Mb arranged in 2216 scaffolds, with 6.5% gaps. For scaffolds, N50=81 and L50=1.1 Mbp. 95.7% of the genome is in scaffolds larger than 50 Kbp. The genome annotation contains 25,530 protein-coding loci. There is a separate collection of 27,504 protein-coding transcripts from EST sequencing of IM62 and other genotypes (and species). These data are also being incorporated into a forthcoming update of the mimulusevolution.orgdatabase, which integrates the sequence data with genetic markers, maps and other information.

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The Fort Lauderdale guidelines aim to balance the value of rapid release of genomic data with respect for the scientific interests of the generators of that data. We ask that you respect these terms. Please feel free to use these data to advance biology e.g. help clone a gene, analyse a gene family, etc., though note that this is a preliminary release, and undoubtedly includes various errors. Our plans for

publication of the Mimulus genome are focused on the large-scale analysis of the gene and repetitive content of the genome and its evolutionary dynamics (including synteny and chromosomal/segmental duplication, gene family evolution, gene structure evolution) relative to other angiosperms. The initial manuscript describing the assembly, annotation, and first global analysis of the mimulus genome will be based on an improved, chromosome-scale assembly currently in development. If you have an interest in using these data for large-scale analysis, or contributing to a companion manuscript, please contact one of us.

Todd Vision, John Willis, Dan Rokhsar