!!! NOTE: This site is deprecated!
!!! Please find the latest maize data on http://gramene.org,
!!! or contact feedback@gramene.org.


MaizeSequence.org
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Welcome to the FTP site for http://maizesequence.org, the official web portal for the Maize Genome Sequencing Project. The FTP site contains maize sequence and annotation data dumps as well as support software.

The subdirectories on the FTP site correspond to distinct recent releases of the maize project. The 'current' directory is an alias to the most recent release.

Available releases
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    release-3a.50 (2008-12) - Pre-assembly BAC-based gene build
    release-3b.50 (2009-02) - Pre-assembly BAC-based gene build + Filtered Gene Set
    release-4a.53 (2009-10) - Maize RefGen_v1
    release-5a    (2010-11) - Maize RefGen_v2
    release-5b    (2011-02) - Maize RefGen_v2 + Filtered Gene Set
    release-5b+   (2013-06) - Maize RefGen_v3 Protein-coding genes only (Equivalent to Filtered Gene Set) 

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Last updated Tuesday, January 14, 2014