title: genomic DNA of Anaplasma marginale
design: The Illumina adapter sequences were removed using the ILLUMINACLIP trimming step of Trimmomatic version 0.36 program. Poor quality bases from Illumina paired-end reads were removed using the DynamicTrim algorithm of SolexaQA++ software package with Phred quality score Q=13. The paired-end reads were de novo assembled using the SPAdes version 3.11.1 program with the following options: i) only runs assembly module (--only-asembler); ii) reduce the number of mismatches (--careful); and iii) k-mer lengths between 21 to 127.