Kellet's whelk genome and transcriptome assembly

Understanding genomic characteristics of non-model organisms can help bridge gaps in ecology and evolutionary sciences, but lack of a reference genome and transcriptome for these species challenges their study. We advance this goal by conducting the first full genome and transcriptome sequence assembly and analysis of the non-model organism Kellet’s whelk, Kelletia kelletii, a marine gastropod and fisheries species exhibiting a northern range expansion along the US west coast that is potentially driven by climate change. We used a combination of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, PacBio, and Illumina platforms for sequencing, and integrated a set of bioinformatic pipelines to create a comprehensive and contiguous de novo genome assembly. Our results represent the most complete and continuous documented genome among the Buccinoidea superfamily to date. Genome validation revealed its relatively high completeness with low missing metazoan BUSCOs, and an average coverage of ~70x for all contigs,..., , , # Kellet's whelk genome and transcriptome assembly

## Description of the data and file structure

See for methods used for the assembly and analysis of the genome and transcriptome.

**Files**
Genome assembly: Scaffolds_pass1.fasta
Genome annotation: transcripts.fasta.transdecoder.genome.gff3
Transcriptome assembly: final_transcriptome.fasta

## Sharing/Access information

Data was derived from the following sources:

* All raw sequence data, including the PacBio sequel 2, Nanopore MinION, and Illumina NovaSeq DNA sequencing, as well as the Illumina NovaSeq RNA sequencing, are deposited in NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under PRJNA999368: and PRJNA1000198: .

## Code/Software

See methods and commands used at