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by BioGeek 3441 days ago
This list highlights the most import organisms that have their genome sequenced, but look at [1] to see the full list of 22244 organisms that are currently sequenced.

Most human pathogens, like Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ... have several thousand assemblies each.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/browse/

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Many are just deconvolutions of microbiomes.

Not that I'm against it as I'm very much into metagenomics, but many of these genome assemblies can barely qualify as draft genomes.

Also yet another important point here is the strain level resolution, which the depth of sequencing had afforded us. For eg, if one were to look at staph or any other human pathogen, you'll find at the bare minimum more than tens of those.