Reviewer name and names of any other individual's who aided in reviewer	Kushal Suryamohan
Do you understand and agree to our policy of having open and named reviews, and having your review included with the published papers. (If no, please inform the editor that you cannot review this manuscript.)	Yes
Is the language of sufficient quality?	Yes
Please add additional comments on language quality to clarify if needed
Are all data available and do they match the descriptions in the paper?	No
Additional Comments	I was not able to access all the data - but I assume its available under the accession they provide in the paper - also will be nice to have the gene annotation table as part of a supplementary section in the manuscript
Are the data and metadata consistent with relevant minimum information or reporting standards? See GigaDB checklists for examples <a href="http://gigadb.org/site/guide" target="_blank">http://gigadb.org/site/guide</a>	Yes
Additional Comments
Is the data acquisition clear, complete and methodologically sound?	No
Additional Comments	A generic protocol is referenced - I suggest the data collected specific to this snake be stated in the MS
Is there sufficient detail in the methods and data-processing steps to allow reproduction?	Yes
Additional Comments
Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality?	Not my area of expertise
Additional Comments	There is no statistical analysis applicable in the work
Is the validation suitable for this type of data?	No
Additional Comments	not sure this is applicable
Is there sufficient information for others to reuse this dataset or integrate it with other data?	No
Additional Comments	not clear - may be it is - urge the authors to make the gene annotation available as part of the manuscript
Any Additional Overall Comments to the Author	The authors report the assembly for Naja atra. The report a genome of 1.34Gb coding for 26,432 functional genes. The work is suitable for the journal. Some suggestions to improve the work to make it more than just a genome announcement paper are noted below. 1. Authors point to a protocols paper to figure out the data generate – will be useful for them to state what data type and much was collected 2. Suggest adding numbers that indicate how many scaffolds greater than 5 or 10Mb is present in the assembly and does that number roughly correspond to the number of chromosomes seen elapids 3. They say they identified 26,432 functional genes – is all of these full length protein coding genes ? Is there an annotation for toxin genes ? Can they state how many toxins they find in the genome given it’s a medically important snake as stated in their introduction.
Recommendation	Minor Revision