Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus qingshengii Strain BKS 20-40

BKS 20-40 was se-quenced using the Illumina-HiSeq 1000 paired-end technology,whichproducedatotalof28,206,978paired-endreads(insertsizeof350bp)of101bp.Wehaveusedthenext-generationsequenc-ing quality-control NGS QC toolkit v2.3 (4) to filter the data forhigh-quality(HQ)(cutoffreadlengthforHQ 70%;cutoffqual-ityscore 20)vector-andadaptor-freereadsforgenomeassem-bly. A total of 26,791,554 high-quality vector-filtered reads(~541.2 coverage)wereusedforassemblywithVelvet1.2.08(atahashlengthof55)(5).Thefinalassemblycontains104contigsoftotal size 6,601,618 bp, with an N