The draft genome of Bacillus atrophaeus var.globigii was finished at the Department of EnergyJoint Genome Institute (JGI) using a combination of Illumina [16] and 454 datasets [15] . For this genome, we constructed and sequenced an Illumina GAii shotgun library which generated 15120217 reads totaling 544 Mb, which was combined with 454 Titanium standard library which generated 387327 reads totaling 137 Mb of 454 data. All general aspects of library construction and sequencing performed at the JGI can be found at http://www.jgi.doe.gov/. The initial draft assembly contained 25contigs in 25scaffolds. The 454 Titanium standard data were assembled with Newbler, version 2.3. The Newbler consensus sequences were computationally shredded into 2 kb overlapping fake reads (shreds). Illumina sequencing data wereassembled with VEL-VET, version 0.7.63 [17] , and the consensus sequences were computationally shredded into 1.5 kb overlapping fake reads (shreds). We integrated the 454 Newbler consensus shreds, the Illumina VELVET consensus shreds and using parallel phrap, version SPS -4.24 (High Performance Software, LLC). The software Consed [18, 19, 20] was used in the following finishing process. Illumina data was used to correct potential base errors and increase consensus quality using the software Polisher developed at JGI (Alla Lapidus, unpublished). Possible mis-assemblies were corrected using gapResolution (Cliff Han, unpublished), Dupfinisher [21] , or sequencing cloned bridging PCR fragments with subcloning. Gaps between contigs were closed by editing in Consed, by PCR and by Bubble PCR (J-F Cheng, unpublished) primer walks. A total of 79additional reactions and 10shatter libraries were necessary to close gaps and to raise the quality of the finished sequence. The total size of the genome is 4 168 266 bp and the final assembly is based on 137 Mb of 454 draft data which provides an average 33.46 coverage of the genome and 544 Mb of Illumina draft data which provides an average 1336 coverage of the genome. The complete sequence and WGS were deposited at DDBJ/ EMBL/GenBank under accession numbers listed in Table 2 . The WGS versions described in this paper are the first versions, e.g. AEFM01000000.