Hirundo rustica (Barn swallow) genome, bHirRus1

The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upper parts and a long, deeply forked tail. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.. This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP and B10K projects. Sequencing was conducted on a with Pacific long reads and Bionano DLS at the University of Milan led by Giulio Formenti, 10X Genomics libraries at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genomes Lab led by Olivier Fedrigo, HiC at Arima Genomics, and Illumina short reads sequencing. Genome assembly was conducted by Giulio Formenti using the VGP 1.6 trio pipeline. The raw data and assembly are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies/