Complete genome of Nitrosospira briensis C-128, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from agricultural soil

© The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Standards in Genomic Sciences 11 (2016): 46, doi:10.1186/s40793-016-0168-4.Nitrosospira briensis C-128 is an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an acid agricultural soil. N. briensis C-128 was sequenced with PacBio RS technologies at the DOE-Joint Genome Institute through their Community Science Program (2010). The high-quality finished genome contains one chromosome of 3.21 Mb and no plasmids. We identified 3073 gene models, 3018 of which are protein coding. The two-way average nucleotide identity between the chromosomes of Nitrosospira multiformis ATCC 25196 and Nitrosospira briensis C-128 was found to be 77.2 %. Multiple copies of modules encoding chemolithotrophic metabolism were identified in their genomic context. The gene inventory supports chemolithotrophic metabolism with implications for function in soil environments.The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science JGI under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 for CSP 2010 project 1012224; USDA NIFA Award 2011-67019-30178, and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University project UTA00371