Supporting data for "Genome assembly and annotation of the king ratsnake, <i>Elaphe carinata</i>."

The king ratsnake (<i>Elaphe carinata</i>) of the genus <i>Elaphe</i> is a common large, non-venomous snake widely distributed in Southeast and East Asia. It is an economically important farmed species. As a non-venomous snake, the king ratsnake predates venomous snakes, such as cobras and pit vipers. However, the immune and digestive mechanisms of the king ratsnake remain unclear. Despite their economic and research importance, we lack genomic resources that would benefit toxicology, phylogeography, and immunogenetics studies.<br>Here, we present data from single-tube long fragment read (stLFR) sequencing used to generate the first contiguous genome of a king ratsnake from Huangshan City, Anhui province, China. The resulting genome size is 1.56 GB with a scaffold N50 of 6.53M, from which we predicted 22,339 protein-coding genes, including 22,065 with functional annotations that are available here. This genome data is potentially a useful addition to those available for snakes.