show Abstracthide AbstractThis project collects the genomic and transcriptomic data generated for the western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii), to facilitate genome assembly and annotation as part of the Canadian BioGenome Project (https: //www.earthbiogenome.ca/) provided by CGEn - Canada's national platform for genome sequencing and analysis, and its partners. The data under this project are made available subject to the Canadian BioGenome Project Open Data Release Policy.