Complete genome sequence of a virulent barcoded Mycobacterium tuberculosis str. Erdman

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB), which claims over a million lives per year. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of a virulent barcoded M. tuberculosis Erdman strain that has been used extensively for non-human primate infection research studies. The complete genome sequence was generated using de novo assembly of long-read WGS (Oxford Nanopore) followed by additional polishing with short-read WGS (Illumina).