Schistocerca cancellata RefSeq BioProject. Schistocerca cancellata

Foundational to the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute's effort is the establishment of annotated genomes of six Schistocerca species to study the molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity in a comparative framework. We generate genome assemblies for S. gregaria, S. americana, S. piceifrons, S. serialis cubense, S. cancellata, and S. nitens, using high-quality long read sequencing technology, combined with chromatin sequencing and assembly expertise.To approach this challenge, we combined high fidelity long reads generated using Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) sequencers with Hi-C data. PacBio Hifi contigs (contiguous, gap-free DNA sequences) are generated at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) using Hifiasm. The assembled contigs are ordered and oriented into chromosome-length scaffolds using in situ Hi-C data generated at BCM, and 3D-DNA for automated scaffolding followed by Juicebox Assembly Tools for assembly finishing.