Highly Contiguous Nanopore Genome Assembly of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC-1690

Abstract

The current <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> reference genome remains fragmented due to gaps stemming from large repetitive regions. To overcome the vast majority of these gaps, publicly available Oxford Nanopore Technology data were used to create a new reference-quality <i>de novo</i> genome assembly containing only 21 contigs, 30/34 telomeric ends, and a genome size of 111 Mb.