Roy’s beautiful genome paper is published today in Nature Scientific Data. Using a combination of Hi-Fi sequencing and Omni-C scaffolding, Roy managed to obtain an extremely high quality genome for this species. Even, better, this genome includes gene models generated with PacBio Iso-Seq making it by far the best abalone genome resource to date. The paper is titled, Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the tropical abalone, (Halitosis asinina)