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UAE Prosopis cineraria (Ghaf) Reference Genome 2022
De novo near-chromosomal reference genome and annotation for the UAE national tree Prosopis cineraria, combining Illumina short reads, PacBio long reads, Omni-C scaffolding and transcriptome evidence to support studies of desert adaptation and legume genome evolution.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- One wild Prosopis cineraria tree sampled in Sweihan, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Project type
- reference genome sequencing and annotation
- Research domain
- plant reference genomics, desert adaptation and comparative genomics
- Years
- 2022–2022
- Lifecycle status
- published reference genome
- Status basis
- Peer-reviewed genome paper published 31 July 2022; sequencing data are deposited under PRJNA838117 and the assembly is represented by NCBI ASM2901754v1/GCF_029017545.1.
- Status evidence date
- 2022-07-31
- Scale
- ~691.86 Mb final assembly; 2,271 scaffolds; ~41.4 Mb scaffold N50; 99% BUSCO completeness; sequencing included ~213x Illumina, ~65x PacBio and ~306 million Omni-C reads.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, United Arab Emirates University · Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University
- Partner organizations
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi · University of Georgia · New York University
- Organism / population
- Ghaf tree (Prosopis cineraria)
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- Illumina whole-genome shotgun sequencing
- PacBio long-read sequencing
- Omni-C proximity-ligation sequencing
- RNA sequencing
- de novo genome assembly
- genome annotation
Data access
The publication reports raw genomic, PacBio, Omni-C and transcriptome sequencing under NCBI BioProject PRJNA838117; the reference assembly is represented by GCF_029017545.1/GCA_029017545.1, and assembled-genome/predicted-protein files are also deposited at Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6720540.
Identifiers
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23158503 - PMID
35955640 - PMCID
PMC9369113 - BioProject
PRJNA838117 - RefSeq Assembly
GCF_029017545.1 - GenBank Assembly
GCA_029017545.1 - DOI
10.5281/zenodo.6720540
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Distinct completed UAE reference-genome project with peer-reviewed publication, durable BioProject and assembly identifiers, and direct downstream reuse by the separately curated 2025 UAE Ghaf population-genomics study.
Editorial note
Preserve as distinct from the later EAD-M42 Ghaf genome/methylation project. Once both AE-C01 and AE-C02 are present in the same composed checkpoint, add only the directly evidenced reference-genome relationship rather than conflating project identities.
Sources
- peer-reviewed publication Verified 2026-09-05
- peer-reviewed publication index Verified 2026-09-05
- official sequence repository Verified 2026-09-05
- official sequence repository Verified 2026-09-05
- data repository Verified 2026-09-05
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