CGC1 Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequencing project

For future genomic analyses of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, CGC1 (originally called PD1074), a completely isogenic wild-type derivative of N2, was generated and is cryopreserved in numerous aliquots at the CGC and available to all. HiFi PacBio and ultra-long nanopore were used to sequence CGC1. The HiCanu assembler was then used to achieve gap-free and telomere-to-telomere reference genome assembly for CGC1 by filling gaps with high-quality consensus sequences.