A personal, reference quality, fully annotated genome from a Saudi individual

We have used multiple sequencing approaches to sequence the genome of a volunteer from Saudi Arabia. We use the resulting data to generate a de novo assembly of the genome, and use different computational approaches to refine the assembly. As a consequence, we provide a contiguous assembly of the complete genome of an individual from Saudi Arabia for all chromosomes except chromosome Y, and label this assembly KSA001 . We transferred genome annotations from reference genomes and predicted genome features using methods from Artificial Intelligence to fully annotate KSA001 , and we make all primary sequencing data, the assembly, and the genome annotations freely available in public databases using the FAIR data principles.