Whole genome sequencing of female pompano (Trachinotus ovatus)

Golden pompano (Trachinotus ovatus), belong to the Carangidae family, are important aquaculture fish in China due to their economic value. To aid genomic research in this species, a high-quality reference genome of the golden pompano would be a very useful resource. We produced 106 Gb cleaned Illumina data from paired-end and mate-pair libraries. Another 16.9 Gb long reads data on Pacbio platform were also sequenced. By combination of Illumina and Pacbio reads, we generated a 648 Mb female pompano assembly with a contig N50 size of 1.8 Mb and a scaffold N50 size of 5.05 Mb. With 114.8 Gb cleaned Hi-C data, 99.4% of the total assembled bases were anchored into 24 chromosomes. This assembly would promote the scientific research and aquaculture related to this fish.