De novo whole genome sequencing data of two mangrove-isolated microalgae from Terengganu coastal waters

Kit Yinn Teh; C L Wan Afifudeen; Ahmad Aziz; Li Lian Wong; Saw Hong Loh; Thye San Cha

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104680

De novo whole genome sequencing data of two mangrove-isolated microalgae from Terengganu coastal waters

Data Brief. 2019 Oct 18:27:104680. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104680. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Kit Yinn Teh^{1

2}, C L Wan Afifudeen^{1

2}, Ahmad Aziz³, Li Lian Wong^{1

2

4}, Saw Hong Loh^{3

1}, Thye San Cha^{3

1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Satreps-Cosmos Laboratory, Central Laboratory Complex, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia.
² Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia.
³ Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia.
⁴ Institute of Tropical Aquaculture, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia.

Abstract

Interest in harvesting potential benefits from microalgae renders it necessary to have the many ecological niches of a single species to be investigated. This dataset comprises de novo whole genome assembly of two mangrove-isolated microalgae (from division Chlorophyta); Chlorella vulgaris UMT-M1 and Messastrum gracile SE-MC4 from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Library runs were carried out with 2 × 150 base paired-ends reads, whereas sequencing was conducted using Illumina Novaseq 2500 platform. Sequencing yielded raw reads amounting to ∼11 Gb in total bases for both species and was further assembled de novo. Genome assembly resulted in a 50.15 Mbp and 60.83 Mbp genome size for UMT-M1 and SE-MC4, respectively. All filtered and assembled genomic data sequences have been submitted to National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and can be located at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession of VJNP00000000 (UMT-M1) and VIYE00000000 (SE-MC4).

Keywords: Chlorophyta; IDBA-UD; Next generation sequencing; Oleaginous microalgae; Salinity.