Fagus sylvatica (European Beech) genome resource

---

The scaffold level genome (version 1.2) represents a 542 megabase assembly with 62085 predicted gene models. A summary of the current assembly is given in the table below. Number of scaffolds 6451 Assembled Genome size 542.30 Mb Longest scaffold 1.15 Mb L50 count 983 N50 length 145.4 Kb Number of predicted Gene models 62085 Total coding region 95.5 Mb The searchable genome browser for the reference genome can be accessed here. The genome assembly and gene annotations can be downloaded from here. Raw data and assemblies are available at ENA with the project accession PRJEB24056. The genome is reported at https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy063 , please contact Prof. Dr. Marco Thines (m.thines@thines-lab.eu or marco.thines@senckenberg.de) for any further information and/or collaboration.