Dan MacLean1, Kentaro Yoshida1, Anne Edwards2, Lisa Crossman3, Bernardo Clavijo3, Matt Clark3, David Swarbreck3, Matthew Bashton4, Patrick Chapman5, Mark Gijzen5, Mario Caccamo3, Allan Downie2, Sophien Kamoun1, Diane GO Saunders1
1The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
2The John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
3The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
4Bioinformatics Support Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Framlington Place, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
5Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada
Tóm tắt
Ash dieback is a devastating fungal disease of ash trees that has swept across Europe and recently reached the UK. This emergent pathogen has received little study in the past and its effect threatens to overwhelm the ash population. In response to this we have produced some initial genomics datasets and taken the unusual step of releasing them to the scientific community for analysis without first performing our own. In this manner we hope to ‘crowdsource’ analyses and bring the expertise of the community to bear on this problem as quickly as possible. Our data has been released through our website at oadb.tsl.ac.uk and a public GitHub repository.