Draft genome sequence data of Rhodosporidium toruloides VN1, a strain capable of producing natural astaxanthin

Tuyet Nhung Tran; Dai-Hung Ngo; Ngoc Tuan Nguyen; Dai-Nghiep Ngo

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104443

Draft genome sequence data of Rhodosporidium toruloides VN1, a strain capable of producing natural astaxanthin

Data Brief. 2019 Aug 28:26:104443. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104443. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Tuyet Nhung Tran¹, Dai-Hung Ngo², Ngoc Tuan Nguyen³, Dai-Nghiep Ngo¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Science, Vietnam National University-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
² Faculty of Natural Sciences, Thu Dau Mot University, Binh Duong Province, Viet Nam.
³ Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

Rhodosporidium toruloides strain VN1 is of special interest because of its capability for high astaxanthin production. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of R. toruloides VN1, which comprises 20.01 Mb in 424 contigs with an overall G + C content of 61.8%. This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number SJTE00000000.

Keywords: Astaxanthin; Draft genome; Illumina; Rhodosporidium.