As this Friday flies by, take a moment and check out these four bird genomes and their fun facts.

Congrats to our projects who sequenced these feathered friends: Darwin Tree of Life, @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social, B10K & Genome 10K

We have finished the curation of Aspidoscelis tigris (western whiptail), rAspTig1. This is a manually curated update of a genome originally assembled by the California Conservation Genomics Project. Files available on GenomeArk: (1/3)

We have finished the curation of 2 frog genomes this month!

(1) Anomaloglossus baeobatrachus (rocket frog), aAnoBae1
Assembly: Samuel Talbot via Galaxy
Curation: Kirsty McCaffrey
Curation QC: Jo Collins (Sanger) (1/4)

We have finished the curation of Canis lupus baileyi (Mexican wolf) genome, mCanLup2. Assembly was done by Linelle Abueg on Galaxy. Curation was done by Erick Duarte. Files are available on GenomeArk: (1/2)

The curation of the Saimiri boliviensis (Bolivian squirrel monkey) genome, mSaiBol1 has been completed. Files are available on GenomeArk: https://genomeark.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=species/Saimiri_boliviensis/mSaiBol1/assembly_curated/

Assembly was done by Linelle Abueg on Galaxy. (1/2)