Open Peer Review Discuss this article (0) Comments DATA NOTE First draft genome sequence of , de novo Oryza coarctata the only halophytic species in the genus Oryza [version 2; referees: 3 approved] Tapan Kumar Mondal , Hukam Chand Rawal, Kishor Gaikwad, Tilak Raj Sharma, Nagendra Kumar Singh National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (ICAR), PUSA, New Delhi, 110012, India Abstract plant, collected from Sundarban delta of West Bengal, India, Oryza coarctata has been used in the present study to generate draft genome sequences, employing the hybrid genome assembly with Illumina reads and third generation Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology. We report for the first time the draft genome with the coverage of 85.71 % and deposited the raw data in NCBI SRA, with BioProject ID . PRJNA396417 This article is included in the Global Open Data for gateway. Agriculture and Nutrition Referee Status: Invited Referees version 2 published 15 Dec 2017 version 1 published 25 Sep 2017 1 2 3 report report report report , University of Delhi, India Sandip Das 1 , University of Stephen P. Moose Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 2 , Panjab University, India Kashmir Singh 3 25 Sep 2017, :1750 (doi: ) First published: 6 10.12688/f1000research.12414.1 15 Dec 2017, :1750 (doi: ) Latest published: 6 10.12688/f1000research.12414.2 v2 Page 1 of 8 F1000Research 2017, 6:1750 Last updated: 27 DEC 2017