Cocoa genomes added
Our system at https://web.persephonesoft.com has a couple of newly added cocoa genomes:
Theobroma cacao (Criollo v2)
Theobroma cacao (Matina v2)
Comparing the cocoa genomes to the ones for coffee by using orthologous gene pairs reveals significant synteny.
A local sequence homology is also quite interesting and informative. Unsurprisingly, the sequence conservation between the distant relatives is most obvious in functionally important regions, such as exons.
