WMS Genome

The Wisconsin Miniature Swine (WMS)TM was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their smaller size allows for the maintenance of local herds, making these animals well-suited for gene editing experiments. Here, we present a draft genome assembly representative of the WMS(TM) line. The primary assembly was generated with approximately 20X coverage of long reads from Oxford Nanopore Technologies and independently error-corrected using 23X Pacific Biosciences reads. Arima Genomics Hi-C data was used to improve contiguity. Largely congruent with the existing Sus scrofa genome, the WMS(TM) genome generated here is highly complete and supports investigators utilizing WMS(TM) in biomedical research.