Nomenclature proposal

Locus: "W"+ContigNumber_ContigIssueNumber_TestNumber_published EMBL or GenBank accession_BasePosn
Allele: as Locus_A or Locus_C or Locus_G or Locus_T

Example: Contig 1090, from the first set of contigs issued, the first SNP test designed, corresponds to sequence U76558 in the EMBL database, the variant base corresponds to position 479 in this sequence.

for which W1090_01_001_U76558_479_A and W1090_01_001_U76558_479_T are the known alleles.

This is self-evidently unwieldy. Perhaps an alternative would be to put the EMBL accession number first, delete references to the contigs, so it becomes

The cognate gene or family could also be appended eg. U76558_479_T (alpha tubulin). This at least has some biological relevance.

Problem: what do we do when there is no homologous wheat sequence submitted to GenBank or EMBL?

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