Bat1K’s mission is to unlock the extraordinary biological diversity of bats by providing high-quality genomic resources to the global scientific community. Bats represent the second largest order of mammals and exhibit remarkable adaptations in longevity, immunity, echolocation, and flight.
Each Data Note provides essential information about species, sample collection, sequencing strategy, assembly metrics, and metadata associated with a given bat genome, ensuring transparency, reproducibility, and citability of the resource.
By building this Collection, Bat1K is creating a record of the world’s bat genomes and fostering a resource that will support new discoveries across diverse fields of science.