ProMateAr: Ilex paraguariensis sequencing project. A summary

The yerba mate sequencing project was born in September 4, 2014 during a meeting organized by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva de la Nación (Mincyt, Argentina) in Buenos Aires. During a second meeting organized by the Mincyt in Posadas, Misiones, in October 3, 2014 an integrated version of this project, hereafter called ProMateAr, was delineated. A first version of the yerba mate genome, sequenced by the Instituto de Agrobiotecnología Rosario (Indear, Argentina) thanks to a grant of the Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias, Ministerio de Educación de la Nación (SPU, ME, Argentina), which bioinformatic analysis was also granted by the Mincyt, became available to ProMateAr researchers in April 5, 2016 at the extinct web site www.promatear.com.ar. That version of the genome accounted 65 thousand assembled scaffolds and 1.44 Gb of size. A second version of the yerba mate genome was achieved by ProMateAr and then submitted to GenBank in 2021 (GCA_905181385.1; 32 thousand scaffolds, 1.42 Gb of size) and finally a third version was presented in 2024 (GCA_963454935.2; 10 thousand scaffolds, 1.06 Gb of size). The extinct web site www.promatear.biargentina.com.ar summarized the main goals and data of ProMateAr.