1. PROJECT
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Title: The Long Term Housing, Maintenance and Scientific Curation of the National Fruit Collections 
Dates: April 2008-
Funding organisation: Defra
Grant no.:GC0143/GC0147



2. DATASET
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Title: Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Fingerprint data for apples from the National Fruit Collection as used in Ordidge et al PLOS One 2018
Description: Data are simple sequence repeat (SSR) genetic fingerprints of the accessions in the apple collection of the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, UK. The data are called and rounded allele scores, recorded by marker to the nearest  base pair. The data represent a reproduction and update of the original SSR dataset from Fernandez-Fernandez F (2010) as detailed in the publication by Ordidge et al., 2018 (PLOS One). A number of alleles were adjusted based on either rescoring and/or recalling of the original data files using Genemapper software and/or reproduction of fingerprints following the original published protocols.
Publication Year: 2018

Creator(s): Matt Ordidge, Edward Venison
Organisation(s): University of Reading
Rights-holder(s): Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; University of Reading



3. TERMS OF USE
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Copyright Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and University of Reading 2018. This dataset is licensed by the rights-holder(s) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

4. CONTENTS
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Data are presented in the form of an Excel spreadsheet and are SSR alleles, called and rounded to the nearest base pair using Genemapper software.

5. METHOD and PROCESSING
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For data collection method see: See Fernandez-Fernandez F. Fingerprinting the National apple and pear collections. Final report of the Defra research project GC0140. 2010. http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=GC0140SID5FingerprintingFernandez.pdf and Ordidge et al. (PLOS One 2018) for updates.