Melopsittacus undulatus (budgerigar) genome, bMelUnd1

The budgerigar, also called the Australian Parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus), is the most widely used parrot species for studying the neurobiology of vocal learning. This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP and B10K projects. Sequencing was conducted on a trio family of animals, 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 short reads sequencing, all on the daughter; and shot gun illumina reads on the parents supported by Adam Phillippy of NIH. Genome assembly was conducted by Olivier Fedrigo, Giulio Formenti, and Greg Gedman, and supervised by Arang Rhie, using the VGP 1.6 trio pipeline. This allowed assembly of both the paternal and maternal haplotype as chromosomes. Coordination and funding of the genome was led by Erich Jarvis and Tim Wright. 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/