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Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii)

Genome & Transcriptome Data NCBI Accession: PRJNA1301027

Citation: Cleopatra Petrohilos, Emma Peel, Luke W. Silver, Patrick G. S. Grady, Rachel J. O’Neill, Carolyn J. Hogg, Katherine Belov: When Cells Rebel: a comparative genomics investigation into marsupial cancer susceptibility bioRxiv 2025.08.12.669816; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.12.669816.

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aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun.global.20251003.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun1.2.fgenesh.gff3 .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun1.2.fgenesh_cds.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun1.2.fgenesh_mrna.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun1.2.fgenesh_protein.fasta.g .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/mPerGun1.2_20251003.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/README.txt .
aws s3 sync --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Perameles_gunnii/ .


Assembly Statistics  
Assembly PacBio HiFi + YaHS
Genome size 3.9 GB
#contigs 4595
# Scaffolds 1462
Contig N50 2.0 Mb
Scaffold N50 722.0 Mb


BUSCO v5.8.0 mammalia odb10
Complete 89.5%
Single Copy 87.1%
Duplicated 2.5%
Fragmented 1.5%
Missing 8.9%

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. The samples were provided by A. Weeks and D. Sutherland. 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.