1 Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, CBR Defense Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
2 Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
3 Center for Genome Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
4 U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
5 Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA.
6 Defense Biological Product Assurance Office, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
7 Defense Biological Product Assurance Office, Frederick, Maryland, USA shanmuga.sozhamannan.ctr@mail.mil.
8 The Tauri Group, LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Here, we report the draft genome sequences of three laboratory variants of Bacillus anthracis Sterne and their double (Δlef Δcya) and triple (Δpag Δlef Δcya) toxin gene deletion derivatives.