Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale) genome assembly, mBalMus1. Balaenoptera musculus

The data under this project are made available subject to the Genome10K data use policies (https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies. The Balaenoptera musculus is a important marine mammal species for various kinds of researches. The sample was collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA by Jeff K. Jacobsen, Susanne Meyer, Li-Fang Chu, and Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget. The samples were provided by Morgridge Institute for Research and this reference assembly of has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project. Data was provided by Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison Biotechnology Center, University of Minnesota Genomics Center, Washington University of Saint Louis McDonnel Genome Institute, Dovetail Genomics. Genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, specifically by Arang Rhie and Sergey Koren of Adam Phillippy's lab at NIH. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL group led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, and the Phillippy Lab. The primary haplotype contains the longest contigs of the Pacbio FALCON unzip assembly, scaffolded with 10X linked reads, Bionano optical maps, and Arima HiC reads, with multiple tools to further separate out haplotypes.