WGS sequencing, assembly, and annotation. Pyricularia oryzae 70-15

The International Rice Blast Genome Consortium, led by the Broad Institute and the Fungal Genomics Laboratory (FGL) at North Carolina State University (NCSU), sequenced the Magnaporthe oryzae strain 70-15 genome at >7X coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing. The genome assembly, which corresponds to release 5.0 from the Broad Institute, consists of 739 nuclear genome contigs in 197 scaffolds, and five mitochondrial genome contigs in three scaffolds. It represents the completion of the first stage of finishing. The genome assembly has been annotated using automated gene prediction tools.