Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle) genome, rCheMyd1

Chelonia mydas is a species popularly known as the green sea turtle, with a range that extends from tropical to subtropical seas around the world. Chelonia mydas are currently endangered of becoming extinct (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species). This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP project. Sequencing was conducted with Pacific long reads, Bionano optical maps, 10X Genomics libraries, Arima Genomics HiC, and Illumina short reads at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden led by Gene Myers group. Genome assembly was conducted by Martin Pippel, using the VGP 1.6 pipeline. The primary haplotype was assembled to chromosomes, whereas the alternate as contigs only. Funding was raised by Gene Myers and Camila Mazzoni. The raw data and assembly are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies/