1 University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, USA.
2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, USA.
3 University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, USA Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA jaeisen@ucdavis.edu.
Here, we present the draft genome of Bacillus safensis JPL-MERTA-8-2, a strain found in a spacecraft assembly cleanroom before launch of the Mars Exploration Rovers. The assembly contains 3,671,133 bp in 14 contigs.