Draft Genome Sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain Awamori Number 101, Commonly Used to Make Awamori, a Traditional Spirit, in Okinawa, Japan

We report here the draft genome sequence for Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain Awamori number 101, an industrial strain used for producing awamori, a distilled alcohol beverage. It was constructed by assembling the short reads obtained by next-generation sequencing. The 315 contigs constitute an 11.5-Mbp genome sequence encoding 6,185 predicted proteins.

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This study presents the draft genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain Awamori number 101, an industrial strain used for producing awamori. The genome was constructed by assembling short reads obtained through next-generation sequencing, resulting in 315 contigs and encoding 6,185 predicted proteins within an 11.5-Mbp sequence.