This portal hosts the research community's efforts to improve the genome annotation of Macadamia integrifolia.

• Timeline of Macadamia genome availability
  
  • The draft genome scaffolds were anchored to a high resolution linkage map generated by Kirsty Langdon and Cathy Nock (Langdon et al., 2020), working at Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia.
  
  
  • October 2020:  The chromosome-anchored reference genome sequence for Macadamia integrifolia HAES 741 was published by Nock et al in the journal G3. As the first representative genome from the plant family Proteaceae to be fully sequenced and anchored to a dense linkage map it is now timely to explore detailed systematic annotation based on community-sourced evidence.
  
  
  • July 2021: Updated 'Annotation Release 100' is provided in INSDC databases, courtesy of the standard NCBI annotation pipeline (v 9.0).
  
  
  • September 2020: Web Apollo implementation and launch via Australian BioCommons
  
  
  • late 2021: The Ensembl Plants team at EBI are processing the annotated genome through their pipelines. More information and links will be provided here soon.


• About the Apollo implementation
• WebApollo is a generic browser-based tool developed by GMOD for visualization and editing of sequence annotations. It is designed for distributed community annotation efforts, where numerous people may be working on the same sequences in geographically different locations; real-time updating keeps all users in sync during the editing process. This provides the Macadamia research community with the opportunity to generate consensus annotation based on their accumulated and complementary expertise.


• How to use - community interaction
• The default settings allow any user to view current annotation for the relevant genome. More details and user guide will be available here soon
• Registered users are able to add new annotation tracks and edit/enhance gene models according to their specific expertise and evidence base


• Hosting
  • This WebApollo portal is hosted by Australian BioCommons in conjuction with QCIF  


• Online now - chromosome-anchored gene annotations:
  • go to the WebApollo Macadamia integrifolia HAES 741 genome assembly
  • M. integrifolia HAES 741 is the first chromosome-anchored genome assembly  of a Proteacea species genome available in an INSDC (NCBI, ENA, DDBJ) database.
  • Chromosome 01 36.4 Mbp
  • Chromosome 02 44.01 Mbp
  • Chromosome 03 27.83 Mbp
  • Chromosome 04 37.51 Mbp
  • Chromosome 05 46.99 Mbp
  • Chromosome 06 40.83 Mbp
  • Chromosome 07 36.79 Mbp
  • Chromosome 08 27.9 Mbp
  • Chromosome 09 42.25 Mbp
  • Chromosome 10 27.33 Mbp
  • Chromosome 11 27.17 Mbp
  • Chromosome 12 25.32 Mbp
  • Chromosome 13 23.38 Mbp
  • Chromosome 14 26.78 Mbp
  
  
  • Future developments
    • We are interested to develop this capability further with the Macadamia research and breeding community, incorporating a wider range of Macadamia species genomes, assemblies and cultivars
  
  
• Contact
  • for more information and to obtain a user account for editing, please contact Ramil Mauleon and/or Graham King at SCU