Taeniopygia guttata (zebra finch) genome assembly, bTaeGut2

The zebra finch is one of the most studied birds in science, for its vocal learning abilities and as a representation of songbirds. It is native to Australia. This assembly of a female zebra finch has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project, avian B10K Project, and a consortium of songbird neurobiology researchers involved in generating the original male reference genome. DNA was collected from a female and her parents in the laboratory colony of Erich Jarvis at Duke University and Rockefeller University. Sequencing was conducted with Pacific long reads, Bionano optical maps, and 10X Genomics libraries at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genomes Lab led by Olivier Fedrigo, HiC at Arima Genomics, and Illumina sequencing at the New York Genome Center. Genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, specifically by Arang Rhie, Sergey Koren, and Adam Phillippy using a trio assembly approach of parent DNA to sort out the child Pacbio haplotype reads. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL team led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, and the Phillippy Lab. Funding was from the different companies that paid for sequencing, HHMI to Erich Jarvis, and individual grants and awards to the persons listed above. The data under this project are made available subject to the Genome10K data use policies (https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies).