This project provides the genome assembly of Gracilechinus acutus. The assembly is provided by the ATLASea programme (https://www.atlasea.fr)

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"The assembly of Gracilechinus acutus (eeGraAcut1) is based on 40X PacBio data and Arima HighCoverage Hi-C data generated as part of the ATLASea programme (https://www.atlasea.fr).The assembly process included the following steps: initial PacBio assembly generation with Hifiasm, removal of contaminant sequences using Context, removal of haplotypic duplications using purge_dups, and Hi-C-based scaffolding with YaHS. In total, 11 contigs were identified as contaminants (bacterial, archaeal, or viral), totaling 501 Kb (with the largest being 124 Kb). Additionally, 1,621 regions totaling 1.5 Gb (with the largest being 6.4 Mb) were identified as haplotypic duplications and removed. The mitochondrial genome was assembled using OATK. Finally, the primary assembly was analyzed and manually improved using Pretext. During manual curation, 65 haplotypic regions were removed,totaling 24 Mb (with the largest being 876 Kb)"