Chromosome-level genome assembly of a cyprinid fish Onychostoma macrolepis by integration of Nanopore Sequencing, Bionano and Hi-C technology

Onychostoma macrolepis is an emerging commercial cyprinid fish species. It is a model system for studies of sexual dimorphism and genome evolution. Here, we report the chromosome-level assembly of the O.macrolepis genome obtained from the integration of Nanopore long-read sequencing with physical maps produced using Bionano and Hi-C technology. A total of 87.9 Gb of Nanopore sequence provided approximately 100-fold coverage of the genome. The preliminary genome assembly was 883.2 Mb in size with a contig N50 size of 11.2 Mb. The 969 corrected contigs obtained from Bionano optical mapping were assembled into 853 scaffolds and produced an assembly of 886.5 Mb with a scaffold N50 of 16.5 Mb. Finally, using the Hi-C data, 881.3 Mb (99.4% of genome) in 526 scaffolds were anchored and oriented in 25 chromosomes ranging in size from 25.27 to 56.49 Mb. In total, 24,770 protein-coding genes were predicted in the genome, and ~96.85% of the genes were functionally annotated. The annotated assembly...