Finished Genome Sequence of the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6714

Matthias Kopf; Stephan Klähn; Björn Voss; Kurt Stüber; Bruno Huettel; Richard Reinhardt; Wolfgang R Hess

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00757-14

Finished Genome Sequence of the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6714

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 31;2(4):e00757-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00757-14.

Authors

Matthias Kopf¹, Stephan Klähn¹, Björn Voss¹, Kurt Stüber², Bruno Huettel², Richard Reinhardt², Wolfgang R Hess³

Affiliations

¹ Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
² Max Planck-Genome-Centre, Cologne, Germany.
³ Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany wolfgang.hess@biologie.uni-freiburg.de.

Abstract

Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6714 is a unicellular cyanobacterium closely related to the popular model organism Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. A combination of PacBio SMRT and Illumina GAIIx data results in a highly accurate finished genome sequence that provides a reliable resource for further comparative analyses.