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Ghost bat (Macroderma gigas)

Genome & Transcriptome Data NCBI Accession: PRJNA1311142

Luke Silver, Nicola Hanrahan, Kym Ottewell, Kyle Armstrong and Carolyn Hogg: The complete genome sequences of the ghost bat, (Macroderma gigas)

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Assembly Statistics  
Assembly PacBio HiFi + YaHS
Assembler hifiasm v0.19. + YaHS v1.2a.2
Genome size 2.00 GB
# Contigs 460
Longest Contig 95.87Mb
# Scaffolds 313
Longest Scaffold 192.28 Mb
Contig N50 37.66 Mb
Scaffold N50 100.01Mb


BUSCO v5.5.0 mammalia odb10
Complete 96.4%
Single Copy 95.1%
Duplicated 1.3%
Fragmented 0.6%
Missing 3.0%

This genome data was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CE200100012); the NCRIS supported Bioplatforms Australia Threatened Species Initiative. Computational resources were provided by the Australian FGENESH++ Service provided by the Australian BioCommons and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia; Galaxy Australia, a service provided by the Australian Biocommons and its partners; and the University of Sydney’s High Performance Computing facility Artemis provided by the Sydney Informatics Hub. We wish to acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, UNSW, of the Biomolecular Resource Facility, ANU, and of the Australian Genome Research Facility.