The IWGSC is pleased to announce that the Genome Assembly (IWGSC WGA) of bread wheat, *T. aestivum* cv Chinese Spring (ERGE 2135), based on Illumina short sequence reads assembled with NRGene's DeNovoMAGICTM software is now available at the IWGSC sequence repository hosted by URGI-INRA.
A BLAST server has been set up to facilitate rapid access to single or small numbers of queries. The data can also be downloaded from the URGI IWGSC repository.