The data for: Genomic resources and draft reference assemblies of the human and porcine scabies mites, Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis and var. suis

The scabies mite, <em>Sarcoptes scabiei</em>, is a parasitic arachnid and cause of the infectious skin disease scabies in humans or mange in many animal species. We sequenced the genome of two samples of <em>S. scabiei</em> var. <em>hominis</em> obtained from unrelated patients with crusted scabies located in different parts of northern Australia using the Illumina HiSeq. We also sequenced samples of <em>S. scabiei</em> var. <em>suis</em> from a pig model. Due to the small size of scabies mite, these data are derived from pools of thousands of mites and are metagenomic, including host and microbiome DNA. We performed cleaning and de novo assembly and present <em>Sarcoptes scabiei</em> var. <em>hominis</em> and var. <em>suis</em> draft reference genomes. We have constructed a preliminary annotation of this reference comprising 13,226 putative coding sequences based on sequence similarity to known proteins.