1 The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project was begun in 2004
2 by an international consortium including participants from Korea,
3 China, the United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, France, Japan,
4 Spain, Italy and the United States. The initial approach was to
5 sequence only the euchromatic sequence using a BAC-by-BAC approach,
6 and in total more than 1,200 BACs have been sequenced. In 2009, a
7 complementary whole-genome shotgun approach was initiated, which in
8 conjunction with other data yielded high quality assemblies. The
9 International Tomato Annotation Group (ITAG) annotates the genome
10 builds generated by this combined sequencing approach.