1 Plants and Pathogens Group, Research Institute, Earth Nature and Environment, Hepia, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Jussy, Switzerland francois.lefort@hesge.ch.
2 Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Delémont, Switzerland.
3 Plants and Pathogens Group, Research Institute, Earth Nature and Environment, Hepia, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Jussy, Switzerland.
4 JFS, Meyrin, Switzerland.
5 School of Geosciences and the Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Here we report the whole-genome shotgun sequence of a Peruvian strain of Arthrospira platensis (Paraca), a cultivated and edible haloalkaliphilic cyanobacterium of great scientific, technical, and economic potential.