The apple genome was today published by the Italian-led international consortium. Please find attached their press release. Congratulations to all concerned for this important work.

The GDR team have the genome data and we hope to release it very soon on GDR. We will send out another email when it is available on GDR.

Dorrie Main, PhD Associate Professor of Bioinformatics Dept of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Washington State University 45 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6414 Email: dorrie@wsu.edu Tel: (509) 335 2774 Fax: (509) 335 8690 URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/