Genome Assembly and Annotation of the South African Mozambique Tilapia (<i>Oreochromis mossambicus</i>) using PacBio HiFi and Omni-C sequencing

This dataset presents the draft genome assembly and annotation of the South African Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), an ecologically and economically important freshwater species. The assembly and gene prediction were performed using long-read sequencing and advanced annotation pipelines