Curated set of 1703 Streptococcus suis genomes

<strong>Genomes</strong> This dataset consists of 1703 genome assemblies of <em>Streptococcus suis</em>, curated by the authors. Data from NCBI SRA and NCBI Assembly have been combined. If an assembly was available through NCBI Assembly, this was used. Otherwise, a <em>de novo</em> genome assembly was created from NCBI SRA data using SKESA v2.1.0 using default parameters. Assembly quality was evaluated using Quast v5.0.2. Any assembly with more than 500 contigs, a N50 lower than 10 kbp, a genome size outside 1.6-3.0 mbp, a GC content outside 40.0-42.5% or more than 50 Ns/100 kbp was excluded. Average nucleotide identity comparisons were made between all genomes using FastANI v1.1. Genomes that did not show at least 95% ANI to the main cluster of <em>Streptococcus suis </em>strains were excluded. <strong>Metadata</strong> Metadata was extracted from linked publications and curated. Strains were placed in one of three host groups: human hosts, diseased pig hosts, or healthy pig hosts. References are available from the metadata table.