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Background: The Common Garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, DNA for shotgun sequencing is derived from a adult female (Sample ID UTA R 62823; field tag EDBJR-23777) collected by Brian Gall in June 2010. The specific locality is Coffin Butte Rd., ... Benton Co. Oregon, 44 degrees 41 57.02 N, 123 degrees 13 18.06 W. Elevation 229 ft. The Willamette valley specimens are typically assigned to T. s. concinnus. The genomic DNA was extracted from skeletal muscle by the laboratory of Michael Pfender, Deptartment of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame. An estimated genome size of 1.5Gb was used for the construction of libraries. Total assembled sequence coverage of Illumina instrument reads was 72X, including 43X fragments, and 29X long insert reads. The combined sequence reads were assembled using the ALLPATHS-LG software (Gnerre 2011). Post assembly improvements included merging (GAA.pl, Yao 2011) the assembly with several other ALLPATHS-LG assemblies using different datasets. The contigs of the merged 6.0 assembly were reordered by L_RNA_scaffolder (Xue 2013); and SSPACE (Boetzer 2010) was used to further improve scaffolding. Finally, a custom script was used to close gaps. This 6.0 version has been screened and cleaned of contaminating contigs, and all contigs 200bp or smaller were removed. The assembly is made up of a total of 7930 scaffolds with an N50 scaffold length of 516,389bp, which includes singletons (single contigs scaffolds). The N50 contig length is 10,447bp. This assembly spans 1.44Mb including gaps, and singleton scaffolds. A CEGMA (Parra 2009) assessment of the assembly revealed 74.19% of the garter snake core eukaryote genes (CEGs) are complete, while 89.92% of the CEGs at least partially mapped to the assembly. The assembled sequences total 1.12Gb, which is almost 400Mb less than the estimated genome size. The small assembled genome size is likely a result of a large number repetitive sequences failing to assemble. The garter snake assembly was analyzed for repeats with Repeat Modeler (Smit and Hubley), which identified only 22.52% of the assembly as repeated sequence. The repeat content appears to have been underestimated, because of the failure of as much as 25% of the genome to assemble.
 This work was supported by an NHGRI grant to Richard K. Wilson. For questions regarding this T. sirtalis 6.0 assembly please contact Wesley C. Warren, wwarren@watson.wustl.edu, at The McDonnell Genome Institute.
 DNA samples can be obtained from:
 Michael Pfender Deptartment of Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame 109B Galvin Life Sciences Notre Dame, IN 46556

 Sequence and Assembly Credits:

 Source DNA - Michael Pfender, Deptartment of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
 Genome Sequence - The McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
 Sequence Assembly - The McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.
 It is requested that users of this Thamnophis sirtalis 6.0 assembly acknowledge Richard K. Wilson and the McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine that result from use of this sequence assembly.
 Assembly Statistics
 *** Contiguity: Contig *** Total contig number: 175994 Total contig bases: 1122756122 bp Average contig length: 6380 bp Maximum contig length: 171669 bp N50 contig length: 10447 bp N50 contig number: 28683
 *** Contiguity: Supercontig *** Total supercontig number: 7947 Average supercontig length: 141280 bp Maximum supercontig length: 3234367 bp N50 supercontig length: 516389 bp N50 supercontig number: 626
 *** Scaffold Distribution *** Scaffolds > 1M: 179 Scaffold 250K--1M: 1257 Scaffold 100K--250K: 1078 Scaffold 10--100K: 1814 Scaffold 5--10K: 414 Scaffold 2--5K: 836 Scaffold 0--2K: 2369  more

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