title: Whole genome Illumina resequencing of the rice cultivar IR8
design: Rice seeds of IR8 (accession BCF 941) were planted in the greenhouse facility at CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Palmira, Colombia). Genomic DNA was prepared from a single plant as follows: One gram of leaf tissue, of a 45-DAP seedling, was collected and grinded with liquid nitrogen. DNA was isolated according to the Urea-Phenol extraction protocol. DNA quality was tested prior to whole genome sequencing so that concentration was over 500ng/*L and the A260/280 ratio was 1.8. Paired end reads were extracted from a total of 66,811,267 fragments with an average insert length of 600 bp